Q. What is the difference between AT transmission and DTC transmission?

Torque converters or we can say Automatic Transmission feel quite responsive and are well suited for city or highway driving. Depending on their tuning, they can either offer great performance or excellent efficiency, or even a good mix of both. A torque converter is a good bet for you if your driving includes a mix of different scenarios such as slow city crawls in traffic, long highway stints where you easily cruise at triple-digit speeds or a twisty road that requires you to go through the gears often -- and all of that with the option of still returning a fuel efficiency that would be close to its manual counterpart. A torque converter uses two turbines, one connected to the flywheel and the other to the gearbox. A transmission liquid in the middle transfers the force from one side to the other. On the other hand, DCT(Dual Clutch Transmission) has two different clutches which operate two sets of gear ratios, one odd and the other even. When driving around, a computer pre-selects what it feels will be the next required gear using the second clutch, and thus, at the time of the gear shift, the difference between the two is negligible. The computer uses multiple parameters to judge if an upshift, or a downshift will be required. However, the basic premise here is that a higher gear will be selected if you are accelerating and a lower gear will be chosen if you are decelerating. In terms of price, they are ideally around Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh more expensive than their manual counterparts and are a lot more expensive to repair as well. Due to the extensive machinery onboard, a dual-clutch transmission can be fine-tuned to offer quick shifts or more comfortable shifts. Read moreAutomatic Transmissions: DCT vs CVT vs AMT vs Torque Converter.D