People who plan to buy a car will always struggle with the purchase of automatic transmission or manual transmission model, the two have different gear shifting methods and car experience, as far as urban commuting is concerned, automatic transmission model is the choice of most people!
Under the same model, the automatic transmission version is about 10,000 more expensive than the manual transmission model, which is due to the difference in the cost of the gearbox, not only that, the fuel consumption of the automatic transmission model is higher than that of the manual transmission, and the corresponding car and maintenance costs will be higher.
Comprehensive car experience, people prefer automatic transmission models, which is determined by the status quo of urban roads, the number of motor vehicles in the city is very large, it is easy to appear traffic jams, slow driving situation, this car scene, automatic transmission car is obviously more advantageous.
After just getting a driver's license, most people are not familiar with automatic cars, especially those who have obtained c1 driver's licenses, driving school cars and test cars are manual models, and when buying a car, they naturally tend to manually drive cars, and it is difficult to distinguish the meaning of automatic gear levers.
In the early stage of automobile development, joint venture cars and imported cars have the right to decide, many automobile manufacturers have set up benchmarks for car manufacturing, and the gear mark is replaced by English letters, and on the automatic gear lever, "P, R, N, D, S, L, M, +, -" What does it mean? Read it in one article.
“P挡”
This is the abbreviation of the English letter paking, that is, the meaning of stop, used to identify the parking gear, after entering this party committee, the car is in a braking state, there will be no front and rear displacement, of course, on some roads with large slopes, P gear is not necessarily easy to use.
"R Block"
Also the abbreviation of the English alphabet, "Reverse" is the meaning of retreat, the gear is hung into the R gear can be reversed, it should be noted that the car should wait for the car to stop, and then carry out front and rear displacement to avoid increasing the wear of the gearbox gears.
"N挡"
The meaning of "neutral", which means idle state, is used on the car to represent the neutral gear, after the gear is hung into the N gear, the gearbox gear is separated, and unlike the manual transmission car, the automatic transmission car should avoid the behavior of empty gear taxiing.
"D挡"
"drive" means forward, represents forward gear, hangs into D gear will enter the forward state, with the throttle to control the driving speed!
“S挡”
Sport means sport gear, which increases the speed of the car in a short period of time by increasing the torque.
“M挡”
Manual represents manual operation, not all automatic gear models have, can be manually adjusted, automatic transmission model into manual transmission operation, compared to the traditional manual transmission car, M gear has no driving pleasure at all, do not need to control the clutch, only need to step on the accelerator to increase the speed.
"L挡"
Low means low speed, which is also not the standard in all cars, and is often mounted on models with off-road nature, improving the ability to pass through low speeds, mainly for climbing hills or going downhill for a long time.
“+、-”
This logo appears on both sides of the "M gear" to indicate the high and low gears, when switching to the M gear, the gear can be adjusted according to the needs, "+" represents the upshift, "-" represents the downshift, although there is no driving pleasure, but the practicality is strong.
In summary, this is the meaning of the letters on the automatic gear lever, after understanding it will feel simple, the choice of car purchase is more rational, will you choose the automatic car?