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Progress does not stand still as new technologies emerge in the automotive industry every day. Special attention should be paid to significant achievements of automobile engineers in the field of automobile technologies. Pre-selective transmission technologies gained significant popularity with the release of DSG6 and DSG7 transmissions designed by Volkswagen.
The Ferrari 458 Italia was released unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor. It gained recognition as one of the most performance-oriented sports cars. In the view of many Ferrari fans, the only thing missing in the Ferrari 458 design turns out to be the lack of a manual variant.
Recently, some new details related to an 8-speed dual-clutch transmission, assumed to find application on the C8 Corvette, were posted on the Internet It is referred to the patent application from GM recently released online on the Mid Engine Corvette Forum.
According to Subaru representatives, more than 2/3 (78% to be more precise) of BRZ buyers gave preference to the 6-speed manual version.
According to numerous rumors in the automobile media, Toyota still considers adding a manual transmission option for its latest Supra model.
Three
years ago, at the Geneva auto show Toyota Motor unveiled its hybrid Lexus LC500H
model. At first sight, there is nothing special about this grand tourer, but
when you take a look at the powertrain specification, you may be surprised by
its unique and innovative transmission setup.
In the second half of the 90s, marketing specialists of Toyota noticed that automated (or robotic) manual gearboxes gave been gaining popularity in Europe. Thus, the company decided to develop its own robotic gearboxes FreeTronic and Multimode, which are considered by many experts and car enthusiasts to be far from the most successful Toyota designs.
In this article, we will discuss technical solutions, designed by Allison in the course of its long and highly-productive history, intended to attain higher manufacturing capacity, simplify the course of production with fewer components and to achieve higher level of maintainability.
In
recent years, the whole automobile industry has been full of talks about an
imminent end of manual transmissions. And this trend is proved by low take rates of manual models not only in the segment of traditional passenger cars, such as Toyota 86, but also in the segment of luxury cars, such as Genesis.
Hewland Engineering Limited is the only company in the world that supplies transmission solutions to racing teams at virtually all levels of motorsports. Transmissions of this British company are distinguished by high quality components and high-tech production process. In this article, we will become more familiar with this company and take a closer look at its racing transmission technologies.
We continue analyzing statistics on sales figures of manual models from car manufacturers who still put hopes on manual transmissions. Now it’s VW’s turn to tell us how many admirers of the German carmaker still prefer to use gear sticks. The positions of manual models in the VW product line are still quite strong, at least when compared to the data from other automakers.
If
you've ever considered Porsche models as an option when buying a car, you must
have come across an unusual abbreviation PDK, when examining Porsche’s
specifications. This advanced transmission solution, built in-house, ensures extremely
fast gear shifting and found application in numerous Porsche models for a good
reason.
Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.
Manual transmissions make another step backward in the competition with automatics, as Mini reported about temporary suspension of its models equipped with manual gearboxes for the territory of the USA.
Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!
Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.
Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.
Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.
Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.