If you’re
in the market for a car, whether new or used, you’ll likely meet
scores of people who will tell all sorts of stories about
automobiles. Not all of those stories, however, are true. If you want
some help distinguishing which is real and which isn’t, you’re
reading the right article.
Manual
transmission offers better fuel economy
Back when
automatic cars are relatively new, this used to be the case. Today,
however, the aged manual vehicles are continuously being outpaced by
newer generations of automatic vehicle. The continuously variable
transmission, for example, offers an infinite range of gear ratios).
AWDs
help you dodge objects and corner better
All-wheel
drive (AWD) is primarily designed to help a vehicle accelerate
faster, not necessarily to help it avoid road hazards and grip the
pavement better when driving around corners. A vehicle’s
performance in these situations is determined mainly by a combination
of the tires, suspension, and vehicle weight (not to mention the
location of that weight).
A
bullet to the gas tank goes boom
If you’re
told to go electric (i.e. Tesla cars) just because conventional gas
cars are dangerous, don’t believe them. Those people still rely on
a situation rampant in action movies, where a bullet tearing through
the gas tank causes an explosion. Fuel is combustible, no doubt.
However, the TV show MythBusters
debunked
this, firing a bullet through the tank and seeing it completely pass
through without an explosion.
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