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Originally Posted by JSH
You mention real world vs testing. For a manufacturer the test is reality - that is all we get credit for. Compliance and avoiding millions (USA) and billions (Europe) in fuel economy fines are based on what the testing shows.
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That supports my opinion that the manual transmission test itself is part of the problem.
Also explains why GM put that 1st-to-4th manual skip shift feature in some of its big V8 sports cars back in the day? (Hmmm... do they still?)
I wonder what we'd find if we looked at owner-reported fuel economy of manual vs. automatic transmissions for a non-hypermiler's type of car. How about, say, the Subaru/Toyota BRZ/82? My theory is the manuals will still be less bad / better than the automatics, relative to their respective EPA ratings. I may poke around Fuelly and see, just for fun.