Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Li. I have been driving a manual transmission for 12 years, although there are models that have driven an automatic transmission in the past 12 years, when I replaced the manual transmission car with an automatic transmission as a means of commuting to work, I realized the three major advantages of manual transmission over automatic transmission.
Many people buy a car budget is not enough, just like I used to, exhausted the strength to eat, can only buy a low-profile manual transmission model, at this time there is a more tangled problem, do I buy a manual transmission model directly, or first endure and wait to save enough money and then buy an automatic transmission car? If you are still struggling with this problem, then this article can give you the answer, like the collection The following are some of my experience in the process of using the car, I hope to help you.
- Advantage one, manual transmission is cheaper
In fact, many joint venture cars have stopped selling manual transmission models, but there are still many manual transmission models for domestic cars on sale, and they are constantly being updated. For example, Chery's Arrizo 5, the 2023 model has a manual transmission configuration on sale, and the 2024 model has directly become two manual transmission configurations on sale. The price of the 2024 low-profile version of Arrizo 5 manual transmission is 46,900 on the Internet, but the only automatic transmission version of Arrizo 5 will be sold for 60,000, all of which are Arrizo 5, and the difference between manual and automatic transmission versions is 13,000.
People who will understand this kind of car with tens of thousands of yuan must have a very limited budget and it is difficult to make money, but the car is just needed. And this 13,000 is almost one-third of the price of the body, and for this kind of prospective customers, the temptation is quite large.
Many of us live in cities, and we don't know that there are many places where people are poorer. In some remote villages and towns, there are still many families whose conditions are relatively poor, since I have seen this kind of car for 40,000 yuan, it proves that my budget is really limited, not to mention manual transmission, even if this car has no radio, no horn, it is an engine, with a shell and even an airbag, as long as it is cheap enough, someone will buy it. Because many people from rural families, you don't know what this car means to them? Some people really can't get a wife before they buy a car, but even if they buy a car with a low configuration, there will be people who are willing to marry him, this is the reality of rural areas, and selling cheaply is the biggest advantage of manual transmission models.
- Advantage two, the manual transmission is more powerful
The power of the manual transmission is stronger, not that the engine of the manual transmission model is better, but the efficiency of its transmission of power is higher, and we can easily exert the power of the engine. For example, I used to drive a manual transmission model, commuting to work on the national highway often need to constantly overtake, hang the fourth gear I feel that the power is not enough, then I will drop to the third gear, pull up the speed to 3000, turn up to 3000 rpm, feel that the power is not enough, then go up to 4000 rpm, as long as the gear is suitable and willing to step on the accelerator, then even if it is a small displacement model, you will not feel that the power is insufficient.
But the automatic transmission model is different, the automatic transmission model, even if you are a small displacement engine, you may feel that the power is not enough when you use the D gear, and you have to switch to the S gear to get a better acceleration effect. Sometimes you may need to switch to manual mode on the gearbox, which can be used to increase the engine speed to be able to cope with complex road conditions. Compared with automatic transmission models, manual transmission is more efficient, and cars with the same displacement feel more powerful to drive.
- Advantage three, manual transmission is safer
The manual transmission is safer, mainly reflected in the role of the clutch, if the novice drives the manual transmission, it is not easy to cause the vehicle to lose control because of stepping on the wrong oil. A few days ago, I also saw a video of a person driving out of control, without stepping on the brakes at all, accelerating straight to hit the stone pier of the gas station before stopping. If you don't have to look at this situation, you can see that he must have wanted to brake, but it turned out that he stepped on the accelerator, and the vehicle lost control after the accelerator was stepped on as the brake.
But if he was driving a manual transmission model at the time, then he must have been slow in the process of entering the gas station, right? If you have a little common sense, you know that the manual transmission model will stall if you don't step on the clutch and step on the brakes when the speed is relatively slow. At this time, you must step on the clutch before stepping on the brake, so even if you step on the wrong step and press the accelerator as a brake to the end, it will not be said that you will lose control and crash into the gas station.
And a lot of novice friends in the driving school to learn to drive are signed up to learn manual transmission, the manual transmission has been more familiar, back home and then to open the automatic transmission, will feel relatively unfamiliar, equivalent to learning again, a lot of operations have not developed muscle memory, which increases the danger of driving, and you first open the manual transmission, their own car skills to open the automatic transmission, it is safer.
The above is about the three advantages of manual transmission models compared with automatic transmission models, if you think what I said is wrong, please discuss it in the comment area, thank you for your support.