I’ve driven a zf8speed for a while and it’s pretty great, more fun to shift a bunch with the shorter ratios it makes you feel like the car is actually fast. But I work Amazon and these ford transits have a 10speed.
My issues are:
1)it always over up shifts. It never uses second gear ever. It will always go to 3rd and you’ll be in fking 4th by 12mph. So I find that it has to constantly down and upshift when I need the slightest bit of power which coming from driving manuals just feels bad. Like bro stop working so hard just wait to shift till 2.5k rpm. Im always hitting the gas then if I have to let off for one second even on a big uphill it will just upshift to like 6th or seventh. And then all the way back to 3rd one second later when I need to power up the hill again.
- this is the biggest issue imo, the final gear ratio doesn’t even reduce rpm comparitevely to my 8speed at say 80mph the revs are almost the same. Bro if your gonna add two gears make it the same ratio as the 8 with two extra so I’m at like 1k rpm on the highway. Why bother with the 10 speed if I’m still gonna be at 2.5k rpm at 80mph.
Ok random rant over, this is what happens when you drive on vehicle too often for an annoying job. You start really nitpicking everything that gets slightly on your nerves lol
Agreed the 10L80 in my ZL1 is clunky as hell especially when the trans is cold on a cool day. It will genuinely hold gears for over a second at times and the downshifts sometimes feel like your going to headbutt the steering wheel. Not to mention my mpg is already shit so it really doesn’t benefit much at all. Best experience auto wise ive had were DCT eight and seven speeds by a long shot.
Gotta agree. Got an e92 m3 right now with the 7spd dct. So much fun. Woulda loved a manual but there were precisely two for sale on the whole west coast in the 6 months leading up to my purchase and it was a daily driver anyway