You reminded me my old AE92 1.3 Corolla manual

That was a 1km+ long straight with very steep uphill.

3rd gear floored the throttle already, speed was dropping.

Dropped to 2nd gear continued floor it, accelerated until about 80km/h 6000rpm redline. Those cars high rpm sound is very irritating, like engine going to explode.

So shifted up to 3rd gear, and damn speed dropping again.

In the end gave up crawled at 50-60km/h until the top. Almost everyone was overtaking me. Except Kancil crawled together with me.

That time king of the road haven't release. Wonder what the scene would be? 1.5L should be fine. 1.3 probably crawl together.

How about Nissan?

Altima (Teana sister model at US) 2.5s gave me good impression. Never check the engine torque and CVT spec, but it handle 181hp just fine.

You know being a rental car, we don't pamper it. Seems no problem to take the abuse.

Lease price is same as Camry, if the transmission is really fragile like people claim, won't the leasing company just stick to Camry to save operating cost?

Haha, a lot of people don't understand how transmission work.

Gear is a torque and speed converter like you said trade speed for torque or trade torque for speed.

On speed reduction gears let's say 10:1. Output rotation speed is 10% of input rotation speed, but output torque is 10x of input torque.

But input/output horsepower power remains constant during the torque/speed conversion if we disregard the loss. Horsepower in layman term is how frequent we apply torque. Hence "work done per unit time". The stupid wall analogy is totally misleading.

This post has been edited by constant_weight: Nov 11 2021, 04:38 PM

I think he is referring to any low torque car as a general. With aggressive speed reduction gearing, car can always climb albeit very slowly.

Because torque and speed are inversely proportional to each other during the conversion.

10x multiplication of torque = 10x slower rotation at output. Thus the long face analogy, because of moving really realy slowly.