While idly wondering if the Pakmara can really do that, Crunchy Cookie
said:
; My only question is: has this changed? How are the automatics on the new 6 and
; RX-8? And are all of the units on the 6 actually made by MAZDA now? I remember
; 94-97 (or is it 94-02?) 626 4-cylinders having Ford automatics that shifted just
; as badly as Mazda's, except broke a LOT (guess who took the blame?).
In the summer of '02, while my manual tranny Protege was in the shop
for a large scheduled maintenance thing, they gave me a current model
626 automatic for the day. I thought it was underpowered, but that's
the engine, not the tranny. I did not notice, or at this time
remember, any problems with the transmission. I've driven cars with
worse, and cars with better.
I currently own a Mazda6 with the SportAT. Having owned/driven this
car for about 15 months, I have no complaints about it in auto mode.
In manual mode, I find that it doesn't self-downshift soon enough in
city driving. In auto mode, no problem.
So far as I know, the 6 only has two transmission choices, manual and
SportAT. And the SportAT is different from a "normal" automatic. Also
so far as I know, Ford does not use a dual mode tranny in any of their
own cars.
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