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Originally Posted by VIVA GT
Modern turbo diesels have spectacularly high torque figures, usually at low engine speeds, but often also come with narrow power bands. By carefluuy matching the engine to a multi-speed, electronically controlled transmission does enable them to keep the engine in the 'sweet spot' for optimum acceleration.
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Thanks Viva.
Even relatively modest cars seem to be adding a gear a year to their 'boxes.
We should probably expect that soon someone will invent something called continuously variable transmission (unless that has already been patented by the TV broadcasters ....)
