My test vehicle came with a six-speed manual transmission (a seven-speed automatic is also available).
The car has a V8 engine, five-speed manual transmission and 102, 755 miles on the odometer.
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So, with a lot of jerking and bouncing and bumping around, I learned how to master a manual transmission.
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As such, it's a lot like driving a manual transmission stuck in second gear and using engine braking to slow down.
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Muscle-car guys don't give a hoot about fuel economy and they must know how to drive a manual transmission.
The 201-horsepower, 2.4 liter model is more responsive, but it only comes with a six-speed manual transmission, a deal-killer for most buyers.
Marchionne also says the company made a mistake by initially offering the Dart only with a manual transmission and small Fiat engines.
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All-wheel drive usually reduces gas mileage by about 2 mpg while a manual transmission can improve fuel economy by 1 to 2 mpg.
The smaller and lighter four-cylinder gets better mileage than the six-cylinder when the six-cylinder is paired with a manual transmission, according to EPA estimates.
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While it works well and includes a manual gear-select mode, a proper manual gearbox or a quicker-shifting dual-clutch automated manual transmission would afford livelier performance.
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And the car's five-speed manual transmission slaps the ratios around nicely.
It was like a manual transmission for word processors and spreadsheets.
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What about the fact that, in addition to a six-speed automatic, this wagon can be had with a six-speed manual transmission, a device that's quickly becoming a drivers-only shibboleth?
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While the degree of control still isn't as precise as a manual transmission, just changing the shift points can make a vehicle feel like it's suddenly grown a much bigger engine.
As before, the 2012 Acura TL remains one of the few cars in its class to offer a manual transmission as a no-cost option on the all-wheel-drive version with the larger V6.
It will be interesting to see if Chrysler can also strike gold with the new Dart, set to get 41 mpg on the highway with a 1.9-liter four, a manual transmission and a special aerodynamic-enhancing eco package.
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In 1997 a team led by Bernd Matthes, chief engineer at a BorgWarner transmission plant in Germany, came up with a concept for a dual-clutch transmission technology, which gives a fuel-efficient manual transmission the smooth feel of an automatic.
The Gran Turismo should get about what a standard 3-series gets: up to 36 mpg on the highway with a manual transmission and a four-cylinder engine and 33 mpg on the highway with the six cylinder motor and automatic transmission.
With an expected arrival date in 2014 and six new Datsun vehicles planned, the new model will be extremely basic (think manual transmission and few, if any, airbags) and the consensus even among Nissan employees is that the release will be difficult to pull off.
Sorry, it's about to get all geeky in here: The longitudinally midmounted V8 transfers power to the limited-slip e-diff through a Koenigsegg-designed seven-speed gearbox, with a twin-disc dry clutch and an 11-disc wet clutch arranged sequentially, working cooperatively, rather like a dual-clutch automated manual transmission.
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With the car transferring power to the ground through a single-clutch mid-rear transaxle, the Vanquish doesn't cycle through gear ratios with quite as much impact as a car with a dual-clutch automatic manual transmission, the Ferrari V12, for instance, which also enjoys a 165-hp advantage.
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The car itself is based primarily on the MINI Cooper S, with similar front and rear styling and the l.6-liter four-cylinder turbo engine that debuted in the 2011 MINI S. (The engine gets 181 hp and up to 192 lb-ft of torque, with a 0-to-60 mph sprint of 6.6 seconds.) Fuel economy ratings are 35 mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city under the manual transmission variant.
It got 23 to 24 mpg overall, depending on whether it had a manual or automatic transmission.
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Available with manual or automatic transmission, they went 0-60 mph in 10.5 seconds and got 18 mpg.
The most efficient Cruze model, the Eco, uses a 138-horsepower, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine and a manual, six-speed transmission to achieve an EPA rating of 28 mpg city, 42 highway.
Both come with manual or PDK (standard) transmission and get decent mileage on the highway.
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Our tester W8 wagon had a mere 9, 181 miles on the odometer when it arrived, but it clearly had warped front brake rotors, a rattle in the automatic transmission lever from overzealous shifting in the manual mode, and bushings that had already been flogged at a level equivalent to what 100, 000 miles of driving by any ordinary owner might do.
The transmission was excellent in automatic mode, and manual shift is still accessible by pulling the center console-mounted gear selector to the left.
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But mated with the standard 5-speed automatic transmission (only the base LX is available with a 5-speed manual) in a vehicle that weighs just 2, 855 lbs, performance is acceptable.
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