Automatic Gear Cars are Better for Manual Drive!
A quiet revolution has been taking place among India's cars. Today, practically every car maker offers automatic transmission in the top-end versions of its cars. Believe it or not, as many as 40 models of locally made or assembled cars offer automatic gears. The car maker reports that the demand is growing fast, but since these automatics are offered only for the top-end models, they are more expensive than the base models with manual gears. However, it is only a matter of time before things change. Most people think that not only are automatic transmissions expensive but they are also heavy on fuel and unreliable. But they forget that technologies are closing the gaps very quickly. Till recently, a typical car with automatic gears would consume about 15 percent more fuel than its manual counterpart, but that is no longer the case The early automatics had fluid drives that allowed great slippage and only had three gears. Modern automatics, on the other hand, have six or more