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Originally Posted by digital rules
How's the automatic in hilly areas? Does it hunt/downshift excessively? If not, this sounds like a great little car for the price.  |
I have limited experience driving the automatic, but the transmission seemed to be well designed, shifted fast, and didn't do anything goofy.
However, people on forums have complained of very early automatic transmission failures. So i don't think it's reasonable to recommend that.
The manual has a lot of rev hang built into the computer to reduce emissions. It's a bit annoying tbh, but the car has pretty good power and lots of low end torque, so you can easily skip gears or avoid upshifts/downshifts. I often cruise at 40mph in 6th gear, and can easily climb a moderate highway grade at 60mph ( ~2krpm ) without downshifting out of 6th.
The gearing on this car is very oriented towards fuel economy ( super putzy upper gears ) and it's wonderful because the car does not have a drone on the highway.