Not exact matches
By now the Evo has a six - speed»
box, Super-Active Yaw Control
using a planetary gear set with a greater
torque transfer capacity, and MIVEC variable valve timing.
The automatic «
box is also keen to downshift when maintaining a higher gear might make better
use of the engine's
torque curve.
Evolution X March 2008 Power 290bhp @ 6500rpm
Torque 300 lb ft @ 2500rpm Weight 1560 kg Evolution All - new chassis, 4B11 engine, optional «SST» twin - clutch»
box or five - speed manual, Super-All Wheel Control
uses S - AYC, Super ABS and Active Stability Control
Automatic transmission
uses a
torque converter and planetary gears, while manual transmission
uses a clutch and a gear
box.
All three cars here
use a traditional
torque converter auto»
box, rather than anything more racy such as a twin - clutch unit (as in the old S5).
All British S63s will be rear - drive, but in left - hand drive markets Mercedes is now offering the option of a 4 - Matic four - wheel drive version, which
uses a transfer
box at the back of the gearbox to split
torque between axles.
It still
uses a transfer
box to provide a separate low range of ratios for extreme off - road
use and has a standard 50/50
torque split.
However, the design lacks stiffness, because the transition areas from front to center and center to rear reduce beam and torsional resistance, hence the
use of
torque boxes, and soft suspension settings.
The fantastic six - speed
box just begs to be
used at every opportunity, even though the 200 - horsepower engine provides enough lower - end
torque to make any change a choice rather than a necessity.
The car's nine - speed automatic gearbox is also tuned very cleverly to keep the crankshaft operating along its
torque peak, and shifts more quickly and intuitively than Mercedes» auto
boxes used to.
Using upgraded hydraulics, an innovative
torque converter and powerful software, the new automatic «
box responds to the slightest movement of the throttle pedal with reaction times increased by 40 per cent, and shift times halved.
While the six - speed
box is precise and exploits the engine's
torque curve remarkably well, it comes with a hard clutch pedal that is tiresome to
use around town.
I
used an open source program called, «Tile Map Editor» it was fairly straight forward and then either John or myself would go into the
Torque X builder and lay out the appropriate bounding
boxes.