Sentences with phrase «recently automatic cars»

Recently automatic cars have become almost as efficient or even as efficient as manuals.

Not exact matches

Pic - n - Pac recently made changes to its locations, including adding single - bay automatic car washes to nine of its stores.

Until recently, the single - clutch automated manual was preferred to the dual - clutch design for high - performance cars because it shifted quicker and coped with greater torque loads, plus it offered the same manual gear selection with shift paddles and the same mode for automatic shifting.

I was recently reading an article by Road & Track magazine that was comparing different sports cars, and it mentioned the fuel efficiencies of the manual versions versus the automatic versions, and actually listed the automatics as being more fuel efficient than manuals by about 2 mpg.

Stefan Sommer, CEO of ZF Friedrichshafen, recently said any passenger car automatic transmissions with more than nine speeds are basically a marketing gimmick with no real practical advantages.

Of course, that means the car comes with a six - speed automatic mated to Volkswagen's recently - introduced 1.8 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder engine with 170 hp and 184 lb - ft of torque.

Also, things like navigation - controlled shifts for the models with automatic transmission were until recently only found on cars like the Rolls - Royce Ghost and Wraith.

Alfa Romeo, which recently moved its North American headquarters to Orlando, is releasing no details about the car, but it is known that the luxury sedan will be powered by a 3.0 - liter V - 6 and be available with either a five - speed manual or a four - speed automatic transmission.

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If you've been car shopping recently, or just paying attention to Autoweek car reviews, you've noticed that the six - speed automatic — de rigueur as recently as a year ago — suddenly has ratio envy.