I'm not the author, but over the last one year I've driven 20 different cars with automatic transmissions (made by Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Pontiac, Hyundai, Mitsub

I'm not the author, but over the last one year I've driven 20 different cars with automatic transmissions (made by Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Pontiac, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Volkswagen and Subaru). For most of them, what the author says holds. The VW Jetta & Hyundai Elantra had good gear systems. The Chevy Cobalt was fairly good. All of the others had problems with fast acceleration and going slow downhill.