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Hyundai begins production of new in-house developed six-speed automatic transmission

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sjmmail...@yahoo.co.uk

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Dec 26, 2008, 2:09:52 AM12/26/08
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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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Rev. Tom Wenndt

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Dec 29, 2008, 10:16:31 AM12/29/08
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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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Paradox

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Jan 4, 2009, 4:06:34 AM1/4/09
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Supposidly 6 speed transmissions actually have fewer moving parts then 5
speeds, so thats always a good thing.


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Voyager

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Jan 4, 2009, 7:48:29 PM1/4/09
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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?

hyund...@gmail.com

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Jan 10, 2009, 11:30:15 PM1/10/09
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On Dec 29 2008, 10:16 am, "Rev. Tom Wenndt" <trwen...@grics.net>
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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.

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.

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