Following in the footsteps of Toyota and a joint-venture between Ford and General Motors, Hyundai has completed work on its new in-house developed six-speed automatic transmission. The new gearbox will be used in vehicles with transversely-mounted powerplants. Hyundai started development of the new transmission four years ago with reduced emissions in mind. As a [...]
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Sounds promising. But it has a tall mountain to climb in terms of
reliability if it wants to compete with the outgoing five-speed. I haven't
met the Hyundai (or Kia) dealer yet who didn't absolutely crow about this
transmission. VERY few problems - very reliable.


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> Following in the footsteps of Toyota and a joint-venture between Ford and
> General Motors, Hyundai has completed work on its new in-house developed
> six-speed automatic transmission. The new gearbox will be used in vehicles
> with transversely-mounted powerplants. Hyundai started development of the
> new transmission four years ago with reduced emissions in mind. As a [...]
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Supposidly 6 speed transmissions actually have fewer moving parts then 5
speeds, so thats always a good thing.


"Rev. Tom Wenndt" <trwenndt@grics.net> wrote in message
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> Sounds promising. But it has a tall mountain to climb in terms of
> reliability if it wants to compete with the outgoing five-speed. I
haven't
> met the Hyundai (or Kia) dealer yet who didn't absolutely crow about this
> transmission. VERY few problems - very reliable.
>
>
> <sjmmail2000-247@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:_KWdnRTNjardHsnUnZ2dnUVZ8trinZ2d@bt.com...
> > Following in the footsteps of Toyota and a joint-venture between Ford
and
> > General Motors, Hyundai has completed work on its new in-house developed
> > six-speed automatic transmission. The new gearbox will be used in
vehicles
> > with transversely-mounted powerplants. Hyundai started development of
the
> > new transmission four years ago with reduced emissions in mind. As a
[...]
> > Read More:
> >
http://www.leftlanenews.com/hyundai-...n-house-develo
ped-six-speed-automatic-transmission.html
> >
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blogs
> > http://www.carshops247.co.uk/news/Hyundai.html
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>

 

Paradox wrote:
> Supposidly 6 speed transmissions actually have fewer moving parts then 5
> speeds, so thats always a good thing.

Where have you read or heard that?

 

On Dec 29 2008, 10:16 am, "Rev. Tom Wenndt" <trwen...@grics.net>
wrote:
> Sounds promising. But it has a tall mountain to climb in terms of
> reliability if it wants to compete with the outgoing five-speed. I haven't
> met the Hyundai (or Kia) dealer yet who didn't absolutely crow about this
> transmission. VERY few problems - very reliable.

It hasn't always been this way. The XG was the first Hyundai/Kia
vehicle with this transmission, and there were several issues in the
first year of production.

Additionally, Hyundai has already been using a Aisin-Warner 6-speed
transmission in the Veracruz. It's basically the same transmission
Toyota has been using with few problems. The Genesis has/will have
two different 6-speed transmissions (actually three, but two differ in
pretty much only gear ratio), but I know little about whether they're
already in use in other products.