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02-27-2013, 09:00 AM
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Among the future shocks to be shown at the rapidly approaching Geneva Motor Show (http://www.autoblog.com/geneva-motor-show), Land Rover (http://autoblog.com/land+rover) will be displaying a nine-speed transmission it has been working with ZF to develop. Engineered for transverse - read: usually front-wheel drive - applications, the ZF 9HP will replace the six-speed transmission in the Evoque (http://www.autoblog.com/land+rover/evoque) come 2014.
The three extra ratios add just a quarter of an inch in length to the case, yet it's 16.5 pounds lighter than that six-speed. The built-in benefits of the extra gears are better fuel economy and lower emissions, and the even lower gears possible will improve the Evoque's (never-used) off-road capability. The designed benefits are an adaptive shifting system that tailors the transmission to the driving style, a skip-shift function that avoids the need to move sequentially through the gears, and "Fast-Off" and "Curve" modes that take two different approaches to managing upshifts.
While it is the Evoque that breaks the news, it is rumored that the Dodge Dart (http://www.autoblog.com/dodge/dart) will be getting this South Carolina-built transmission as well.Continue reading Land Rover bringing world's first nine-speed automatic transmission to Geneva (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/27/land-rover-bringing-worlds-first-nine-speed-automatic-transmiss/)
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Among the future shocks to be shown at the rapidly approaching Geneva Motor Show (http://www.autoblog.com/geneva-motor-show), Land Rover (http://autoblog.com/land+rover) will be displaying a nine-speed transmission it has been working with ZF to develop. Engineered for transverse - read: usually front-wheel drive - applications, the ZF 9HP will replace the six-speed transmission in the Evoque (http://www.autoblog.com/land+rover/evoque) come 2014.
The three extra ratios add just a quarter of an inch in length to the case, yet it's 16.5 pounds lighter than that six-speed. The built-in benefits of the extra gears are better fuel economy and lower emissions, and the even lower gears possible will improve the Evoque's (never-used) off-road capability. The designed benefits are an adaptive shifting system that tailors the transmission to the driving style, a skip-shift function that avoids the need to move sequentially through the gears, and "Fast-Off" and "Curve" modes that take two different approaches to managing upshifts.
While it is the Evoque that breaks the news, it is rumored that the Dodge Dart (http://www.autoblog.com/dodge/dart) will be getting this South Carolina-built transmission as well.Continue reading Land Rover bringing world's first nine-speed automatic transmission to Geneva (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/27/land-rover-bringing-worlds-first-nine-speed-automatic-transmiss/)
Land Rover bringing world's first nine-speed automatic transmission to Geneva (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/27/land-rover-bringing-worlds-first-nine-speed-automatic-transmiss/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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