That is the normal way of things. A torque converter can absorb more
torque, as I understand it, to cushion the rest of the transmission.
My ML270 would have had less torque if it had had a manual gearbox;
that's the way Mercedes would have tuned the engine, for that very
reason.
Chris
On 4 Oct 2009, at 11:26, Carlos J. Santisteban wrote:
>> Why did it work on Euro version but not the USA version? Automatic
>
>> transmissions. Here in the USA you can't buy a Jeep with a manual
>
>> transmission and the automatics couldn't handle the torque.
>
>
> Funny... wasn't the opposite way? I always thought that it's way
> easier to
> make an automatic transmission able to handle much torque -- or at
> least,
> that's what Mercedes always said.
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