If you're looking for efficiency you should be looking for something with a stick. Anyone who's driven the same gutless vehicle in an auto vs a stick will be able to tell you that!
Originally Posted by Pacnorthcuda
Isn’t there also the torque multiplication of a converter that comes into play? Lot of variables if you think about it!
I've heard that saying peddled my whole life and I still don't understand how a slipping converter is any different from slipping the clutch at launch on a stick.
I believe its because in a torque converter the input and output are fluid coupled together so it kinda acts like a gearbox - a gearbox is a torque multiplier. In a slipping clutch, you aren't coupled - just burning it off as heat.
