savvy amt really playing with consumers brain for all this time.........

Bestari's tiptronic is basically another hydraulic torque converter type automatic transmission as u found in most car like myvi, honda and bla bla but introduce the manual gear shifting option in a + - style, older type L, 2, D N, R automatic still can shift too but not so ergonomic n fun to do so, so in simple another joke from car manufacturer

Savvy amt is automated manual transmission like other said earlier, still a manual gear box that use clutch plates and hydraulic actuators to do the job; the AMT and SMG use extra electronics to perform the clutch action for u, jeremey clarkson always complain about this because everyone drive and everytime also drive differently; too hard to perdict

personally i like the monkey part u guys refer, nice term; bravo

hydraulic torque converter serves as a mechanical damper to smooth out the jerking in between gear changes but clutches dun have such advantage, so it's all depends on electronic programming itself;

btw advance automatic transmission do have a lockup torque converter that as efficient as manual transmission (usually apply from 3rd gear and above) and manual transmission does not necessary better; clutches slip do lost power too and normally it's undetected untill too late

i blame the people, not the name.

strangely people view AMT instead of AMT

they never bother to understand what it is and straight say it's AT.

I think it has to do with the fact that people can guess the word with the first and last letter thingy............hahaha


actually if I were to have an issue with the savvy it would be the price of spares......Renault prices definitely not cheap.

This post has been edited by sakaic: Nov 16 2006, 02:07 AM

isn't it just a manual transmission with auto clutch? lolz.........

well.....not really. The way the gearbox engages gears is slightly different. For starters, these gearboxes do not have syncro gears. 2nd, they are sequential.Which means the gears are stacked in order instead of the usual H-pattern engagement which means that the usual gear arrangement is like 4-3-2-1-5 whereas these gearboxes are 1-2-3-4-5.

Thats why they shift so fast.

The difference between AMT and AT is so simple, but it's hard to explain it to people who don't know much about cars, but I say the key word(s) is TORQUE CONVERTER.

does this means that an AMT is better or same performance than MT?as it use same gearbox rite?sorry larr..dun know much bout cars..

Got another question. If yr AMT breaks down, how much to replace or repair? Wanna see how high is the cost of ownership for the Savvy AMT.

offtopic : cvt is at transmission...does cvt use torque converter??

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