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trynumber9 on Nov 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual...

DCTs are typically 3–5% more fuel-efficient than manual transmissions.

pedrocr on Nov 17, 2016 [–]

That's to be expected as a dual-clutch transmission is a robotically operated manual transmission with an extra degree of freedom. Most automatics are completely different technology that has always been less efficient.

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