In a car, the gearbox can be regarded as the most core part in addition to the engine, and in terms of technical level, the technical level of the automatic transmission is not weaker than the existence of the engine. Therefore, for a car company, the core technology of the engine and gearbox is generally in its own hands. However, in the past ten years, with the increasing integrity of the global supply chain, many car companies do not have engine transmission technology, but also can build very good cars, especially with the advent of the era of electrification, more and more car companies began to abandon the research and development of engines and gearboxes.
However, there is a car company in Japan that is the opposite, even if there is a ready-made gearbox, it is still necessary to insist on independent research and development, which also made the world's smoothest gearbox. This car company is Japan's Mazda. Today, I will take you to understand the past and present life of the Mazda 6AT gearbox.
Before talking about Mazda's gearbox, we must first talk about Mazda more than a decade ago, more than ten years ago, Mazda did not have its own automatic transmission, at that time the prevailing Horse 3, Ma 6, the use of 6-speed manual and 5-speed manual transmission from Aisin. At that time, Mazda was still using some Ford technology. However, after Ford sold mazda's shares, many of Ford's technical licenses were terminated, and Mazda at that time understood the necessity of independent research and development. Although Mazda already had its own engine technology at that time, the shortcomings in the gearbox were also intolerable.
So in 2010, Mazda officially opened its own transmission self-research road, in the choice of transmission form, because at that time volkswagen's DSG dual-clutch transmission had many problems, and Jetco's CVT gearbox could not withstand a large torque, and Mazda always had a sports gene in its bones, so the AT transmission became Mazda's first choice. However, at that time, most of the AT transmission technology was in the hands of established transmission suppliers such as ZF and Aisin, and Mazda's AT transmission was also difficult.
At the critical moment, aisin stood up to help Mazda tide over the difficulties, AISIN licensed the core technology of many AT transmissions to Mazda, and then through Mazda's innovative optimization, a transverse 6AT gearbox that surpassed Aisin's 6AT gearbox was successfully born. Mazda 6AT transmission adopts a Simpson-style planetary gearset transmission scheme, equipped with three brakes and two clutches, in terms of overall smoothness and shift logic, Mazda's gearbox is better than the Aisin 6AT.
In addition, many people say that Mazda's gearbox is OEM by Aisin, in fact, it is not so, the overall structure of Mazda 6AT gearbox is very similar to Aisin's longitudinal 6AT gearbox, so many people think that Mazda's gearbox is from Aisin or oem by Aisin. But in fact, Mazda has a special transmission factory in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, with an annual production capacity of 480,000 units, and a transmission factory with an annual output of 400,000 units in Chonburi Province in southern Thailand. However, compared to Mazda's global sales of nearly 1.5 million, these gearboxes are obviously not enough, so there will still be some models using Aisin's transmissions. So it will make people stupid and unclear whether it is Aisin or their own.
So don't look at Mazda's sales in china in general, but its comprehensive strength is actually far more than most of the domestic car companies, in addition, in the technical route, Mazda is also a very strange car company, could have been used directly to use things, had to be independently developed, and made out has become the best in the world, you say angry people are not. If one day our domestic car companies can also calm down and strive for excellence in research and development, then our domestic cars will surely lead the world. Well, today's content is here first, like the old iron remember to like and pay attention to Oh. (The pictures in the text originate from the Internet, if there is infringement contact, delete)