RoosterCogburn said:

TM said:

Constant Velocity Transmission.

Get a clue.

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CVT = Continuously Variable Transmission

Where'd you get your clue?

My Prius has one, but it's an ECVT... same thing, but ELECTRIC!

I wish it came in manual, which is my prefered, but there is only one gear I guess!!

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Yeah, I was thinking "Continuously Variable" but typed "Constant Velocity"... Shows what a pint of Bacardi can do to a brain at that hour.

DieCommie said:

Fuel is still being fed to the engine when you dont have your foot on the gas.

jellynutz is right.

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jellynutz said:

Sunny said:

LayYouIn said:

automatic, just because it's safer and i highly value life.

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If a driver should become incapacitated behind the wheel of a manual transmission automobile, there will be no more throttle input, causing the engine to lug and die. In an automatic, the car will continue moving at a minimum speed, possibly becoming dangerous to spectators or pedestrians.

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wrong, that manual will keep on pulling you about the same as an auto...at least until you hit a hill or something that it doesn't have the power idling to clear, exactly the same with the auto

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Uhm... what? If you go from any open throttle position, to abrupt close throttle position, the engine will lug. This lugging will cause the motor to stall, and the car will stop if it's in gear.

You'd have to be going down hill at a high right of speed for the motor to continue to run. Even in this case once the car reaches and obstacle and is forced to stop the motor will stall. This is not the case with automatic transmissioned cars. They will continue to run once they hit something or even if you jockey the throttle from dead stop.

Go ahead and try this with your manual car in a flat parking lot:

1.Start the car out in idle, this takes a very sensitive clutch foot, but it's possible once you get the hang of it.

2.At this point the car should be accelerating VERY slowly, possibly lugging depending on the engine power output. NOW, Jockey the throttle (go to Wide-Open Throttle, then closed throttle). This will cause most cars to stall.

Ok, now that we know that at idle any sudden throttle input will likely cause stalling.

Lets try this:

1.Start the car out in first, now shift into second. Now shift into third.

2. You should have had to apply moderate throttle input to maintain speed in 3rd gear. Now, abruptly go to closed throttle position.

Once the rpm's drop back to idle the car will lug, and stall.




OK, Now take your automatic to the same parking lot, do all of the same tests and see if you can get the car to die with out turning off the ignition.

The only exceptions I can think of are a handful of fairly high-output vehicles, most of them are still geared in a manner which causes them to stall out in any gear other than 1st.

budmanman said:

wtf no mang a 351 wont ever stall if its brand new! well when it is a 50o torque you know, its pretty hard to kill it!

Anyone need a mobile home moved lol, jk it has a racing cam, but we could throw in a truck cam and I could haul a mobile home I bet.

So no it wont die from open to close throtel, because there is a cylender fireing so often on a v8, that even my old 302 never died on me, well it died when it was running on 6 cylinders and had a shitty stock carb that was fucked. It died often then.


But all it will do is it will just start pulling hard, and then before I know it it just time to shift.

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budmanman said:

A fuel injected car will, it will stop giving fuel.

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No. Fuel injected, automatic will not die when you go back to closed throttle position, even if you're in overdrive. If you don't believe me, go ahead and try it out.

younikrawn said:

Manual.  I like to drive the car, not have the car drive me

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