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03/10/2020 at 2:19pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Lukeledge on 03/10/2020
The manual gearbox and engine on our 2015 Fiat Ducato are excellent and make it quite enjoyable to drive, don't see the need for an auto box.
Well we are not all the same, which is a good thing in my opinion. I don't see the need for a manual box, especially on a leisure vehicle. All that clutch work, especially in traffic, would drive me up the wall especially after 20+ years of driving coaches. However good a gearbox is, you still have to work that clutch all the time, which might be fun in a light sports car, but not for me when I want a relaxing drive. I haven't owned a vehicle with a manual box for decades, and I never will again. I just think of them as terribly outdated.
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Very little slippage in a modern automatic, unlike the ones from the 1960s, so often hardly any difference these days in fuel consumption. I believe some autos are actually slightly better. Not all though.
The only reason that a gearbox of any description is needed is because of the inefficiency of the internal combustion engine, which only develops its power over a very limited rev-range when compared to an electric motor. An I.C. engine also needs to tick over when stationary, unlike an electric motor, which is why we also need a clutch with a manual box. An electric motor develops power from zero revs right up to its maximum, so no need for anything other than fixed gearing and a means of selecting forward or reverse. Select direction, feed power to it, and off it goes from a standing start to full speed. Couldn't be more simple.
It may be true when you get further up the price-scale that a car and caravan costs as much as a motorhome, but certainly not at my level. My tow-car cost me just over £4,000 and my caravan £1,100, and they are both in very good condition. I don't think you could get even a clapped-out ancient motorhome for that kind of money. In any case, if I had a motorhome I would have to have a car as well anyway, as I wouldn't want to have to do all my day to day motoring in a motorhome. Another reason for my not having one even though I would like one. It just wouldn't be practical for me.
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