The Sturtevant Mill Company is recognized as the first to design an automatic transmission and use it in a car in 1905. But the car was a failure and while other companies attempted to improve on ...

The Hydra-Matic wasn't the first automatic transmission, but it was the first affordable one that worked properly, and it changed the automotive world immediately. View full post on Youtube ...

The very first truly successful automatic car transmission actually had four forward speeds, becoming available starting with the 1940 Oldsmobile. The original Hydramatic proved very reliable, and ...

Automatic cars are some of the most popular vehicles available on the market. Before you choose a car, you need to decide which transmission is right for you.

Generally speaking, a car equipped with a CVT is smoother to drive than an equivalent model fitted with a regular automatic transmission. A CVT can improve gas mileage, too, which explains why a ...

Chevrolet's Corvette team has been putting automatic transmissions in their cars for decades, but never in the hard-core Z06 model.This changed for 2016 with the invention of a house-built eight ...

According to Meineke, most automobiles use a form of automatic transmission called a hydraulic planetary automatic transmission, which is also used in a scaled-up version in some industrial and ...

Canadian steam engineer Alfred Munro designed and patented a four-speed automatic transmission in 1923. Munro's transmission was later used by General Motors in cars ranging from the Buick to the ...