Ultimate Transmission

I mean so many vehicles no more manual transmission were moving on to automatic and now we have other options So if we go back to the 2002 BMW 7 Series this was the first production core to have a six speed automatic and by automatic in this video I'm talking about a planetary gear set and using a torque converter the slushbox which isn'that thrilling of a name and so back in 2001 when the 2002 7 Series was introduced that was the first six speed automatic transmission and that's kind of crazy because We've got eight speeds nine speeds ten speeds I don't know an infinite speeds with a CVT so we have so many speeds now in different transmissions but we also have dual clutch transmission so in 2003 Volkswagen was like we don't need to do this automatic planetary torque converter nonsense dual clutch is the way to go so they introduced the DSG in Europe with the Volkswagen Golf R32 so this is the first production car to have it and it didn't have a torque converter and so How in the world has it done that Well I am sitting inside of the BMW X7 and t Now this transmission has changed in my opinion the automatic 4 liter twin scroll turbocharged engine 456 horsepower tons of torque why wouldn't you pair that with something super sporty like a dual clutch transmission and yet you don't need it this eight speed automatic with a planetary gear set and a torque converter Aston Martin vanquish, Alfa Romeo Giulia, Jaguar F type, BMW pretty much every Rolls Royce, Jeep Trackhawk, Dodge Hellcat, Bentley Continental GT, Lamborg According to Car and Driver in 2017 they built 3. 5 million 8 HP transmissions for various manufacturers so everybody is using these t Well why is everyone using it? Well in 2015 I got the opportunity to find out it was my first time driving a vehicle with this transmission that I was aware of at least and it was in the Jaguar F type R and when I drove the car I didn't know what transmission it had I had no clue but I knew that I loved the transmission because it was very smooth and it was very fast in fact I thought it was a dual clutch transmission and then I went home and I googled it and said what transmission does this have and I found out it was the ZF8 speed and so then I went and did a little text overlay on the video and said this is the best automatic I've ever driven because I thought it was a dual clutch I thought it was shifting as quickly as a dual clutch and it felt as direct when you were in gear like a dual clutch and so 8 less kilograms so you get more gears in the same amount of space that weighs less I mean that is just incredible from an engineering standpoint