Ford Patent For 11-Speed Automatic: Transmission Wars Escalate

2017 Ford F-150 Raptor, 2015 Detroit Auto Show

Time was that the most gears you could get in an automatic transmission was three or four. Then came five- and six-speed automatics, which are now pretty much the standard (along with increasingly prevalent continuously variable transmissions, or CVTs). But the transmission wars have continued to escalate. DON’T MISS: Auto Industry Doing Fine In… …read more