Manual transmission has driving pleasure, which is probably the biggest false proposition.
Isn't automatic driving fun? In this era of manual blocking, consumers vote with their wallets to get data that in the face of the rising automatic barrier camp, manual gear has been abused to no avail.
At present, only a very small number of Chinese brands are willing to continue to produce manual transmission vehicles, and the remaining manual transmission models in the current market are relatively low-end.
Generally speaking, it is difficult to choose a manual transmission model with a budget of 70,000 yuan.
For example, Honda and Toyota basically abandoned the manual transmission model, Volkswagen and GM more than 80,000 models also only have automatic transmissions, and more than 80,000 models of Chinese brands can not find manual transmissions.
Obviously, the entire era is abandoning the manual gear.
The reason is very simple, on the one hand, the automatic transmission technology is more mature, can achieve reliable quality, low fuel consumption and low cost, on the other hand, the automatic gear is indeed more worry-free.
Some people say that manual transmissions are still bought for driving pleasure.
What is driving pleasure? Is it on the basis of an excellent chassis, the use of abundant power to obtain a better sense of driving experience, so well, the driving pleasure of the evaluation criteria, is there only one gearbox?
That is, as long as it is a manual transmission, it is fun to drive?
What I can't imagine is that driving a 60,000 manual transmission car, then one foot clutching one foot throttle, left-handed steering wheel, right-hand barrier bar, making the engine roar on the provincial road but overtaking difficult scenes, called driving fun.
A measure of driving pleasure is the excellent chassis.
The current manual transmission models are basically low-end cars, a good chassis is basically impossible, and the chassis standard of tens of thousands of dollars is not bad, rather than driving up very textured.
The second is the excellent power standard, tens of thousands of dollars of car power is basically about 100 horsepower, acceleration performance is slower than ES200, overtaking acceleration also has to drop two gears, such a car with driving pleasure to describe, somewhat self-deceiving meaning.
Finally, there is the manual transmission.
Driving pleasure is not accurate, accurate is the sense of operation, manual transmission is more operational, can better interact with the vehicle, but there are always some people mistakenly think that it is called driving pleasure.
If the joy of driving is stepping on the clutch and shifting gears, then I think moving bricks is fitness.
The real driving pleasure is to drive the manual 911 to enjoy the pleasure of running mountains in the corners, rather than driving a 60,000 yuan Jetta in a painful traffic jam in the city.
Extreme driving pleasure requires manual transmission to push, but driving pleasure is not the same as manual transmission model.
In the carbon neutral architecture of the future, electric vehicles must be the mainstream, but who told me how to make manual transmissions for electric vehicles, are electric vehicles not equipped with driving pleasure?
The driving experience of the Model3 is currently very strong, relying on not manual transmission at all, no manual car has driving pleasure, relying on speed, chassis, precision steering, and then the combination of people and vehicles.
Manual transmission can make people and cars sublimate, for example, the manual transmission version of Mazda MX-5 is more fun than automatic transmission, but the premise is that the vehicle control itself is good, the architecture level is high, and the playability is strong, and this kind of car is a myth with a manual transmission, such as 86 and BRZ.
You talk about the fact that a family car with tens of thousands of dollars buys a manual transmission is a lack of budget in the pocket, not for any driving pleasure. The budget has risen to 200,000, and you can see if you can buy a manual transmission.