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Automatics used to be less efficient, they have since reached parity, long since.
Fuel efficient, possibly.
But their capabilities envelope is still significantly within that of a traditional (not fake) manual transmission.
After all, how does one ride the clutch on an automatic? How does one drop the clutch? How does one go from 5th into 2nd without touching the gears inbetween?
Automatics are now far more efficient than manuals. More gears (up to 10), and shift faster (milliseconds) and more optimally.
Which road-legal vehicles outside of dedicated supercars?
In late 2024 my wife and I went around kicking tires. On a good dozen-plus vehicles we tested in the $60k to $100k range, all had noticeable hesitation between ramming the gas down and actual shifting to a more appropriate gear. Like, close to full seconds of hesitation as the automatic transmission struggled to figure out which gear was needed.
And this was on 2024 models like the 4Runner, ES 350, GX 550, and many more. Didn’t matter whether we were stopped or driving, the hesitation as the transmission failed its telepathy roll was palpable.
And don’t even get me started on road elements like hairpin turns, where clutch work is vastly superior on any manual with a clutch pedal. Being able to drop a manual clutch exactly where it is needed cannot compare with any automatic hunting for the correct gear. It gets even worse if the approach to the hairpin was a coast to any degree, and the automatic moved several gears off in response.
Like JFC, put a GVW-appropriate, HP-comparable engine in my 1986 Jetta, and I could out-perform any automatic vehicle under $100k. About the only thing I wouldn’t bother going up against are the dedicated sports cars and supercars that less than 0.01% of all people own.
If the gearbox works.