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Aug
Volkswagen has recently been kind enough to let us know that their brand new 2010 VW Golf TDI will start at $21,990. Furthermore, the automaker also let us know that the car is rated at 29mpg for the city and 40mpg on the highway.
Under the hood of the 2010 VW Golf TDI, consumers can expect to find a 2.0-liter diesel burning engine couples with a 6-speed manual transmission. Anyone takers?
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Tags: 6 speed transmission, diesel, gas mileage, Golf, pricing, TDI21
Aug
Mazda has recently announced their intentions to up the fuel efficiency on their entire lineup of cars by 30%. The new engines will reportedly make their debut sometime in 2011 with the automaker first focusing on their 2.0-liter 4 cyclinder engine.
Mazda says that new technology coupled with a 6-speed automatic transmission will give the engine a city fuel efficiency boost from 22mpg to 32mpg and a highway boost from 32mpg to 42mpg. There’s no official word on which Mazda model will be getting the boost first but Automotive News believes the MX5 or Mazda5 are likely candidates.
We’ll keep you posted as more news is made available.
Tags: 6 speed transmission, epa, fuel efficiency, MPG, rating, technology21
Jul
Last week we told you how GM had put shipments of the Chevrolet Camaro SS with manual transmission on hold due to failures with the transmission.
Today however, GM has again spoken of the vehicle but this time notifying us that the problem has been remedied and that shipments are back on. Exactly what the problem was, GM didn’t say but they have said that it was based around the output shaft of the tranmission system.
Finally, GM has said that the problems were very isolated and only around a dozen cases were reported. So everyone, get ordering!
via KickingTires
Tags: 6 speed transmission, camaro ss, delay, manual transmission, problem, shipment12
Apr
The Mazdaspeed 3 has been finally launched in the U.S., joining the many many other cars that have been unveiled there by other manufacturers. While Ford chose to go with Volvo inline-5 engines for the hot hatch versions of the technically similiar Focus, Mazda developed their own turbocharged 2.3 liter direct injection online-4 engine for the Mazda 3 and Mazda 6.
The new Mazdaspeed 3 (also called the Mazda 3 MPS) comes in the 5-door body, and its engine puts out 263 horses at 5,500rpm and 380Nm of torque at 3,000rpm, not quite up there with the ultra-quick spooling ability of Volkswagen and BMW turbo engines but somehow only the European marques seem to be able to achieve that.
The 6-speed transmission’s gear ratios (gear 2 to 5) have also been revised to be slightly taller to take advantage of all 380 Newton meters of torque. There is a torque management system which tries to rein in the torque steer based on which gear the car is in and the steering angle.
(Source) Paul Tan
Tags: 6 speed transmission, Cars, Ford, horses, hot hatch, management system, Mazda, mazda 3, mazda 6, mazdaspeed 3, newton meters, torque, turbo engines, turbocharged, volkswagen, Volvo