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Originally Posted by mdm
This trend will stop. Modern engines are very elastic with wide powerband and adding speeds/gears in the transmission is pointless. At some point your gain of optimizing the rpm becomes negligible (because torque curve is essentially flat) and even with fast transmissions you lose a moment to change gears.
The future will be CVT for a short while, before transmissionless electric motors take over.
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Yea it's getting quite ridiculous with 9 speed torque converter automatics when they could have just gone with CVT imo, neither are bombproof. Seems like a marketing gimmick to me, of cuz the argument is lower fuel consumption to meet tightening legislation.
An analogy is like how they are now making 11 speed groupsets for bicycles with electronic shifters and auto trimming. I think they just need something seemingly cutting edge to sell with no real performance benefits.