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Originally Posted by martinbo 
In my experience and personal opinion, conventional automatic transmissions have a drive and shift quality of their own character. As the industry adds more ratios (hence narrowing the torque gap between gears by keeping the engine revs more closely spaced) automatic transmissions will begin to feel more like CVTs than distinctly "stepped" gear ratios. And I hate CVTs...
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Marrying the smoothness of a CVT, while preserving some of the leeway of changing gears that an automatic transmission offers... That sounds so good to me.
If you want distinct "stepped" gear ratios, why not just go for a manual?
