[ Ссылка ] What is it like to be an auto journalist? Here is a glimpse. Sometimes you are given a car, a route to drive and told to have fun! Today I'm driving a 2016 Fiat 500 Abarth equipped with an automatic transmission. I own one of these cars with a manual transmission and wanted to see how the automatic stacked up. I gave the auto trans a workout and came away impressed.
Shifts were lightening fast (upshifts take 150-200 milliseconds at full-throttle!). When sport mode is selected, more aggressive transmission settings are activated such as throttle-blipping, rev-matching downshifts along with gears being held longer when accelerating out of corners and when getting off the gas. Snappy upshifts are accompanied by a fuel-cut that makes for a nice pop through the dual tailpipes, and the transmission downshifts when getting hard on the brakes to assist stopping performance and to ensure the car is in an appropriate gear to accelerate again. All great fun!
Why not try one out for yourself and do your own road test?
