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Originally Posted by Zeke.Malvo
I think some people are severely overestimating this new transmission. The biggest difference is an addition of a new gear between 4th and 5th, where the old 5th becomes 6th, and an addition of an OD gear before 8th. 10th gear is essentially the same as 8th on the 8 spd. Even with the new snake oil in the transmission, I don't see an improvement of more than 1mpg highway. City might see 1-2mpg. That may get it out of GG tax, not sure.
As for performance, it toots it's own upshifting horn, which I thought the 8 spd did fine, but not much is mentioned or cited with raw numbers of it's downshifting or input response time like they do for the upshifts.
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You may be right about the performance. 8 speed was a dissapointment in manual mode. Ill wait for some reviews before rendering a final verdict. Im hoping its as good as the zf in the 2009 335ix we have.
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