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Originally Posted by Roundown
I like what you did there.
I too find great humor in the DCT crowd being worked up over a torque converter.
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It's not only about the torque converter, it is about the greater static mass, rotating inertia and parasitic losses of a planetary type automatic which make the whole drivetrain more sluggish. Albeit planetary autos keep getting better and better, so it is only a question of time before they are able to match the advantages of a DCT, but they are not quite there yet.
Just to be clear though, the M8 GTE does
NOT have a planetary/torque-converter transmission.
https://ricardo.com/news-and-media/p...t-transmission