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Originally Posted by racprops
These new transmissions only slightly improve on the over drive ratios, a grant total of .10, and only with the more costly 8 speed, the main thing is more lower gears, to get things moving and to help keep narrow power curve engines with in their best power range. The new 6 and 8 speed transmission are for smaller engines to get them moving
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Even though I can't claim to be totally unfavorable to these newer automatics with a considerable amount of gears, sure they're more useful for those smaller engines. On a sidenote, 2 years ago I had a talk with a Bolivian on a beach and he told me the 10-speed transmission in his F-150 with the 3.5 V6 EcoBoost was great for fuel economy. Well, considering the forced induction, I wouldn't consider the EcoBoost to be on the same level of other engines within the same displacement range.