When you get right down to it, automotive vehicles are simply amazing machines, transferring the energy from gasoline into motion to get us where we want to go. This energy transfer process happens in part through a transmission, and that’s why it’s so essential to get the right automatic transmission or used transmission for a [...]

Even though now manual transmissions are more popular than automatic transmissions, the latter ones have become important competitors of the former transmissions, even in the case of cheap cars. When a car owner chooses the fuel, he or she thinks of its advantages and disadvantages. They also consider in the same manner, concerning pros and [...]

While manual cars are not as popular as they used to be (owing to the rising demand for automatic cars especially in the Americas and Europe), they still account for a substantial percentage of annual car sales (both used and new). Perhaps the reason for this is the advantages of a manual transmission over an [...]

Cars with automatic transmission are gaining ground in the India. Hardly a few people had heard of automatic transmission in cars a few years ago. Unlike the West, the car drivers here were fond of manual transmission more and to meet their requirements the Indian car market here was full of cars with manual transmission [...]

The modern automatic transmission is by far, the most complicated mechanical component in today’s automobile.  Automatic transmissions contain mechanical systems, hydraulic systems, electrical systems and computer controls, all working together in perfect harmony which goes virtually unnoticed until there is a problem. This article will help you understand the concepts behind what goes on inside [...]

On automatic transmissions, the  torque converter takes the place of the clutch found on standard shift vehicles.  It is there to allow the engine to continue running  when the vehicle comes to a stop.  The principle behind a torque converter is like taking a fan that is plugged into the wall and blowing air into [...]

Automatic transmissions contain many gears in various combinations.  In a manual transmission, gears slide along shafts as you move the shift lever from one position to another, engaging various sized gears as required in order to provide the correct gear ratio. In an automatic transmission, however, the gears are never physically moved and are always [...]