Manual transmission, How It Works
Here's what's really killing the manual transmission.
The bad news you can not get a manual transmission in the BMW convertible 4 series which is almost as heartbreaking when Toyota fell clutch of the Camry.
The truth, unfortunately, is that almost nobody bought either droptop four of its predecessor, the 3 Series Convertible or midsize sedan from Toyota with a stick, so that their leaders have stopped doing that s business but it is also one more voice to the growing argument automotive manual transmission will for good.
The decline sky for 50 years, it seems in September 1965 Playboy published an article by the automotive journalism legend Ken Purdy He opened with a shot of two pages of a Corvette shifter covered with cobwebs and title Bye-Bye Memory Stick Shift.
The crux of the play was simple automatic transmissions have been proven to make the race cars go faster, making obsolete the manual he was destined to become nothing more than the plaything of a purist.
Half a century later, Purdy theory was proved somewhat more traditional correct cars like the Camry, don t offer a stick at all, and those who sell tiny number but perhaps purist was a word too strong and regular fans buy cars.
The Volkswagen GTI is perhaps the best example Originally only available with a manual transmission, the archetypal hot hatch has earned three additional letters DSG in 2006, for its fifth generation automatic dual-clutch option, with the absence of a third pedal, wasn ta -sapping power transmission torque converter, but what fanboys forum called for improving the performance and because it makes the GTI even faster on the dash to 60 mph and easier to drive fast track on a people said it would be the final nail in the coffin of the manual.
There was no GTI lined coffin sales, and half of car buyers still chose the clutch pedal This means that the participation rate, an industry term for the part of customers choosing an option or a particular configuration, from 100 percent to 50 But the number of sticks sold GTIs quarters remained stable.
In the nine years since the DSG model debuted, manual transmission take rate your GTI hasn dropped in 2012, the last full year for which VW commercial information, some 7830 GTIs books were sold in the present case 500 cars more than three GTI -pedal here was on average every year since 1983. So how, exactly, is sentenced manual transmission.
It is at least not in VW, which has expressed its commitment to maintaining the option available but the rest of the industry feels differently BMW, for example, Chicken Little analyzing sales figures and representatives of the company believe that the sky is at risk.
Namely the production of the E90 M3 V8 has just ended, and the results are 45 out of 100 North American buyers M3 opted for a clutch pedal which includes the convertible, a 4000 lb, luxoboat V8 engine that seems rather unclean A very good sign.
BMW 3 Series has become so great that we're starting to question his status car enthusiast, much less a purist machine; the current three has a larger interior than the brand first 7 Series BMW built Sevens stick shift in the 1980s, but the company didnt numbers on how few were sold production was so low, he probably didn t pay to count.
Despite the bloated size, number of box 3 sold series speed manual each year in North America hasn t fallen significantly over the past 25 years Meanwhile, BMW better automatic s evolved out of a four miserable eight-speed computer-controlled speed moves faster than any human being, accelerates faster, and offers better fuel economy.
But because of the Germans __gVirt_NP_NN_NNPS<__ quête monomaniaque de vendre plus de voitures, la marque attire les acheteurs supplémentaires qui aren amateurs t En d'autres termes, le taux de participation est en baisse.
Blâment les consommateurs soucieux de leur image qui passent 279 par mois pour la location d'un très symbole de statut social subventionné et étant donné que certains de ces taux de location étonnants appliquent uniquement aux modèles automatiques de transmission, et que de nombreux concessionnaires ont gagné t action même BMWs manuel, il sa miracle quelqu'un achète un bâton Trois en premier lieu le fait que la série 3 fait appel encore au même nombre d'acheteurs manuel de transmission comme il l'a fait est une victoire il y a 25 ans pour le bâton BMW a juste besoin de se réveiller à elle.
En ce qui concerne les voitures de passionnés, ils gagnent aussi les jumeaux Subaru BRZ Scion FR-S compact, propulsion arrière, coupés à quatre cylindres sont massivement achetés avec des manuels de 70 pour cent pour le Subie et environ 60 pour le Scion Le BRZ manuel et FR-S sont plus amusant que les versions automatiques Sont-ils plus rapides Est-ce que vous aimez vraiment.
Purdy a eu tort à l'époque, et la plupart des statisticiens d'entreprises sont mal amateurs d'aujourd'hui recherchent le plaisir premier et deuxième vitesse, et les deux aren t toujours liée Oui, le manuel a disparu des voitures de course et il est la disparition des voitures ennuyeuses Mais la pédale d'embrayage est en vie et bien vous avez juste besoin de savoir où chercher.
Jason Cammisa is a R T editor He has a participation rate of 50 percent.
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