rev up your engines, welcome to my Thursday video where I answer a viewers
question and this week's question comes from Steve 701, scotty which company
makes the best automatic transmissions these days, now you might be shocked by
my answer because it's not a company that makes cars, it's a company that only
makes transmissions now when automatic transmissions first came out a lot of
the companies made their own transmissions they were pretty simple
the original GM one with four speed, six-speed, now there's even ten speed
automatics out there, so modern automatic transmissions are extremely complex many
companies have decided, hey rather than do all this research and development on
our own, we're gonna buy our transmissions from a company that only
makes automatic transmissions and it's actually works out best for most
companies actually, I'll give you a perfect example, Honda went the other way, they've
almost always built all their own automatic transmissions and they've had
notorious problems through the years with their automatic transmissions in
Accords in odyssey's they're one of the weaker automatic transmissions out there
and they make them themselves, but take Toyota, they use Aisin transmissions aisin
now I think Toyota owns 30% of the company or something but it's a separate
company and they now provide transmissions for all kinds of cars out
there, Dodge Chrysler has had so many problems with their transmissions a
lot of their trucks now and vans they're using Aisin japanese automatic
transmissions they gave up and are buying them from the Japanese, for
this video I'm talking about normal automatic transmission, I'm not talking
about CVT transmissions I'll make another video for that, because that's a
little bit different ballgame, I'm talking about regular transmissions that
have gears that are automatic in this video, now another company that sells
transmissions to all kinds of different companies, is Allison it's a company
that's based in Indianapolis, they have factories in Indiana, they have factories in
India, they even have factories in Turkey, Allison makes really good transmission
for modern vehicles, now they specialize more in truck and big truck
transmissions, if you're talking about buying a truck with the best
transmission, the Allison transmissions are excellent transmissions but even
Chrysler has switched a lot of their trucks used to have the Allison
transmissions, the big Cummins diesel engines that they made, they would made
them with Allison transmissions which was a good thing for Chrysler because that
meant that the engine and the transmission in their big trucks
weren't made by Chrysler they're made by other people that have better quality control
than chrysler does, but recently Chrysler switched and they're putting the
Japanese Aisin transmissions in a lot of their trucks and vans, and when it
comes to big trucks, strangely enough Ford and GM got together and they decided they're
going to work together to make its 10 speed automatic transmission the f-150s
had it, the Camaro's were using it, the Mustangs were using it, now from what I
read, ford did more of the development than GM did, but by the time they were
done of course Ford and GM had too many arguments they were working on a
ten-speed front wheel drive automatic to use instead of this 10 speed automatic
that was only for trucks and rear-wheel drive and that didn't work out well, GM
was doing most of the 10 speed automatic front wheel drive, so that gave up and I
doubt they'll ever work together again, now from what I've seen this 10 speed
rear wheel drive only transmission that Ford makes, it's a pretty good
transmission I've driven around in three ford vehicles, giant expedition that got
24 miles per gallon on the highway, got really good gas mileage had good
pickup and it was real fast in a Mustang so that seems to be a really
good transmission, but being rear-wheel drive only it has a limited application
that you're gonna put it in, for a normal front-wheel drive cars it doesn't fit
you can't use that one, now when I'm trying to figure out who makes the best
transmissions the main thing is, you want a transmission that shifts really good, it
has power and gas mileage and lasts a long time, and from my perspective nobody
beats Aisin transmissions, the one in my old Celica here, got 240,000 miles, I've
never done anything to it except change the fluid every 40 or 50 thousand miles
and it still shifts like a dream, I personally work on all kinds of cars as
a mechanic, and I found that other manufacturers, hey they might work okay
for eighty to a hundred thousand miles but then they get a little bit more they
start to break down, so if you're the type of person that thinks, oh I got a hundred
thousand miles out of a car that's fine by me
you can buy a lot of different makes out there, but if you want them to last the
longest with the least trouble, I've found these Aisin transmissions are the
ones that are best, the next time you're thinking about buying a car, you might
not just think about the car manufacturer itself, you might do a
little research to find out who makes the transmissions for that vehicle, cause
if it's an Aisin transmission, odds are it's gonna have a really good
transmission that lasts a long time, regardless of whoever's name is on the
car itself, and since this is the Thursday segment
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years experience of fixing cars to answer your own question with a video, so
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