[PPP-Tim]

Traditionaly manual transmission cars have less drivetrain loss then automatic cars. This is due to a few things. 1) The manual car will fully engage the clutch while the automatic cars have a torque converter that slips-(not directly connected) 2) The additional weight of the converter saps up some power. Quite often an LX transmission has approx 19% loss and the new 6speed manual should have approx. 15% loss.