Modern automatic transmissions have done a lot of growing up in the past 20 years. From the early failures of the mass‑market dual‑clutch transmission in the Ford Focus to an era of Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) hassles for owners of various Nissan, Chrysler, and Subaru products, the industry has moved into a period where automatic transmissions rarely register as trouble spots in the vehicles they serve. Today’s best transmissions are engineered and built with decades of expertise, calibration work, fine-tuning, and real‑world refinement behind them. Most can run for hundreds of thousands of miles without much second thought.
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