A proper auto would push it up the plant food output scale costing milllion of sales.
I was hoping they might shoe horn in the new CVT, as apparently fitted to latest Yaris, quite disappointed that this MMT thing is allowed to live on causing further misery.
The automated manual gearbox is a dog, when delivering these things i daren't drop an Aygo MMT versions wheels in any cut out slots built into the decks, the thing couldn't apply enough torque at the wheels to pull itself out again (not alone in this Fiats 500 automanual is another culprit), even facing downhill...hence requiring one to find someone trustworthy to sit in the car whilst one ratcheted the heap out of the cut out and trust them to stop the car before it rolled away...not always easy to find someone competent enough with the nerve to do this on a transporter top deck at the average dealership...not insured mate etc etc.
In fact Fiats version was even worse, at the west country import centre, i've seen these things totally unable to power themselves onto the transporter top deck, requiring the nerve wracking procedure of driving as fast as carefully possible onto the top deck, just about making it on, then the driver sits in the car holding it on the brake whilst a colleague lifts the deck up level, then the car can drive forward to its correct place, again not something for the nervous when the deck is 10 ft in the air and nothing but empty space 3" behind the rear wheels.
Quite why people buy into these things has baffled me from the first day i had the displeasure of (would say driving but that doesn't really apply) sitting behind the wheel of an automated manual.
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