Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

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Brommers in reply to @aggi

Losses in the torque converter, mostly.

Also, autos tended to have fewer gears. No longer the case though.

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aggi in reply to @Brommers

Well that led to some extra reading, I always just assumed that automatics had some form of automated clutch.

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lynx in reply to @aggi

Some do, look up the cvt 'box. Some auto boxes are manual boxes with hydraulic gear change mechanism.

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