Barely, unless you're doing 50k miles a year, you'd barely notice. It was most likely an uneconomical car regardless of which transmission was installed.
I meant the quality of the transmission, how reactive it was type thing, was objectively terrible.
It was separate to the statement that automatic cars, historically, were less efficient, or that was the idea then. Now, sure, probably more efficient.
Barely, unless you're doing 50k miles a year, you'd barely notice. It was most likely an uneconomical car regardless of which transmission was installed.