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A Study On Consumer Awareness And Consumer

Perception About Auto Manual Transmission Cars"

A semi-automatic transmission (SAT) (also known as a clutch-less manual

transmission, automated manual transmission, floppy-paddle gearbox, or paddle-

shift gearbox) is an automobile transmission that does not change gears

automatically, but rather facilitates manual gear changes by dispensing with the

need to press a clutch pedal at the same time as changing gears. t uses electronic

sensors, pneumatics, processors and actuators to execute gear shifts on input from

the dri!er or by a computer. This remo!es the need for a clutch pedal which the

dri!er otherwise needs to depress before making a gear change, since the clutch

itself is actuated by electronic e"uipment which can synchronies the timing andtor"ue re"uired to make "uick, smooth gear shifts. The system was designed by

automobile manufacturers to pro!ide a better dri!ing experience through fast

o!ertaking maneu!ers on highways. Some motorcycles also use a system with a

con!entional gear change but without the need for manual clutch operation.

A#T or Automated #anual Transmission automatic gear cars are the latest trend in

ndia. The first model of an A#T auto geared car was the #aruti $elerio which was

a hit with ndian car buyers. %ow more car models in ndia are coming out with

A#T !ersions of their car models.

Automated #anual Transmission commonly called A#T is basically a manual

transmission car in which the operation of the clutch and the gear changing is done

automatically with the help of a computeri&ed electro-hydraulic mechanism. An

A#T car will not ha!e a clutch and the gear le!er will only ha!e the options of

 %eutral, 'e!erse and orward. There is also the control to up shift or downshift the

gear manually with the *- option.

The up shift or downshift *- option on the gear le!er helps to select the gear, for

example when you want to o!ertake you can shift to a lower gear (from +th to rd

gear for example) ust by tapping the A#T gear shift stick. ou press the

accelerator and re! up the engine at the lower gear and you will get the necessary

acceleration re"uired to o!ertake.

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Another !ery important ad!antage of an A#T automatic car is that the A#T car

will not roll backwards when you stop and go on an uphill slope. n a manual car

you ha!e to be an expert using the clutch and brakes together to a!oid rolling

 backwards when you stop and start on an upwards slope.

Added to all these ad!antages of the A#T car, is the fact that an A#T auto gear car

actually gi!es better mileage than a manual car. This is because the electronic brain

of the A#T auto gear car is a much better dri!er than any of us and knows exactly

when to change gears and sa!e on petrol or diesel.

According to proection by A#T maker #agneti #arelli, /01 of the total

 passenger !ehicles sold in ndia will ha!e A#T by /0/0.

Automated manual transmission (A#T) has made "uite a bu&& in the ndian

automobile market, with a number of manufacturers adopting the technology. As the

name suggests, it is a mechanism that automates manual transmission. 2ere are

some important things you should know about A#T3

4. A#T is not a clutch-less solution. t has a clutch but there is no clutch pedal.

/. t is a low-cost solution that is also con!enient, which is why it has been used in

race cars such as errari as early as 4567.

. A#T is a kit that can be added to any manual transmission.+. The A#T kit can only be factory-fitted.

8. The mechanism has two maor parts - a hydraulic system and an electronic

control unit.

7. A#T operates on the manual transmission of car in the way a dri!er would3 it

engages and disengages the clutch and gears. t also has a sports mode, which

enables dri!ers to mo!e to manual transmission.

9. t is con!enient for car manufacturers because it doesn:t replace the manual

transmission, unlike the automatic transmission system, which is entirely different.

6. According to A#T maker #agneti #arelli, /01 of the passenger !ehicles sold in

ndia will ha!e A#T by /0/0.

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5. A#T is more fuel efficient than manual transmission, unlike automatic

transmission, which reduces efficiency by up to 401, in most cases.

40. The cost differential between manual transmission and A#T is 's +0,000 to 's

80,000 in ndia.

Why Do We Need Transmission System?

;efore we di!e into details, transmission is a part of the car which connects the

engine to the wheels.

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!ons

Tiresome in stop and go traffic

@ear shift speed depends on dri!er prowess, and some may not be able to

extract the maximum out of the car.

What is utomatic Transmission System?

!on#entional automatic transmission system

n automatic transmission, there are again gears like we ha!e in manual, but in this

case, instead of con!entional clutch, there is an automatic mechanism called tor"ue

con!erter which works with some fluids and turbine mechanism (will not go in its

details here).

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$lutch-less transmission is almost the same at the manual transmission, but in this

case, the clutch operation is automated. ?ike the manual transmission system, gear

has to be selected by the dri!er only depending on his*her selection, he*she has to

change the gears, but without operating the clutch le!er. n this case, an

electronically controlled (microprocessor based) system is used to identify when the

dri!er changes the gear, an electrically operated (power operated) system depressesthe clutch automatically when the gear is changed. The components of the system

are almost same as manual transmission, ust than an automated clutch mechanism

is added to it for the comfort of the dri!er. The most tiring part of a manual

transmission is to operate the clutch le!er, once that it eliminated the effort is

reduced to ust selecting and changing gears. n nutshell, it takes out the tiring part

of the dri!ing from the manual transmission and still lea!es the choice of changing

gears with the dri!er. Bne such system called e$lutch has been de!eloped by ;oschwhich works on the same principles.

Pros

reedom from operating the clutch le!er 

>ery comfortable for stop and go traffic

;etter mileage than automatic transmission (less transmission losses)

?ower cost than automatic transmission

!ons

#ore expensi!e than manual transmission

 %ot widely a!ailable

What re (ther lternati#es? Dual !lutch utomatics?

f cost of the transmission can be o!erlooked (such as in performance or luxury

cars), there are e!en better systems which are a!ailable. These systems cars called

=ual-$lutch Automatic transmission systems. These are generally e"ually or more

expensi!e than the con!entional automatic systems, but they are really good in

terms of efficiency as well as performance. The way they operate is that instead of

one, they use two-clutches which connect with e!en and odd number of gears.

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input and many other factors). After selecting the gear, the system automatically

engages that gear in almost no time as it has two clutches, so one clutch is dis-

engaged and other is engaged. This process is !ery fast, efficient and comfortable to

use, but since it in!ol!ed more components and electronics, it is more expansi!e

than all other which are mentioned abo!e.

Some such examples are =@S automatic transmission from >olkswagen and =ual

$lutch automatic system by ord.

Pros

>ery comfortable for any kind of traffic

;etter mileage than automatic transmission (sometimes better than manuals)

;etter performance as gear shifts are fastest compared to other systems

!ons

#ore expensi!e than all other transmission systems (for now)

 %ot widely a!ailable

What is !)T utomatic Transmission

$>T stands for $ontinuously >ariable Transmission and is an efficient automatic

gear system for cars. The basic principal of the working of a $>T or $ontinuously>ariable Transmission is of continuously !arying the diameter of the belt coupled

dri!ing and dri!en pulleys.

$>T is one of the best types of Automatic gear transmission system for a car and

gi!es better fuel mileage than other automatic transmissions. n fact the fuel

economy in a $>T automatic car is better than same model manual cars. %issan car

company has been at the forefront of de!eloping $>T automatic transmission

technology, though most car manufacturers ha!e their own $>T gear boxes. %issan

in ndia offer $>T transmissions on their car models like the #icra and Sunny.

Is a manual car better than an automatic car in India

The "uestion :which car is better automatic or manual in ndia: is in the minds of

most new car buyers in ndia .

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latest automatic cars in ndia ha!e newer types of automatic gears like A#T

transmission, =ual clutch transmission and $>T transmission . The fuel economy

of new generation automatic cars are as good as, if not better than manual

transmission cars. The regular automatic cars ha!e Tor"ue $on!erter type automatic

gear transmission which does ha!e a slightly lesser mileage .

In India the manual gear stick shift model cars are cheaper than

the automatic versions of the same model cars A few years ago

this di!erence between the price of Manual and Automatic cars in

India was more than a lakh of "upees# but now the price di!erence

between Automatic and Manual versions of the same model cars ha!e

come down drastically, especially for the new types of Automatic  cars known as

A#T or Automated #anual Transmission .

 The main ad!antage of an automatic car is the dri!ing comfort. An automatic car

does not ha!e a clutch pedal. Bnce you start dri!ing an automatic car in traffic ams

you realise what you ha!e been missing all these years. ou don:t ha!e to change

gears or use the clutch e!ery few seconds in an automatic car. This dri!ing comfort

of an automatic car in a traffic am has to be experienced for you to know what you

ha!e been missing. %o more being so tired while dri!ing through the constant

traffic ams in the $ities of ndia, because you do not ha!e to be pressing the clutch

and changing gears all the time.

The present generation of automatic cars a!ailable in ndia are only slightly more

expensi!e than the manual !ersion of the same model car, but the ad!antages you

gain is a lot by way of dri!ing comfort. Another big ad!antage of Automatic cars is

that the car will not roll backwards on an uphill slope when you stop and then want

to mo!e forward. n a manual car you ha!e to be an expert to a!oid the car from

going backwards when you stop and start on an upwards slope.

Apart from the dri!ing comfort, the other ad!antage of automatic cars is that the

maintenance cost of an automatic gear car could be lesser than a manual car o!er

the lifetime of the car. This is because the gears are changed automatically at the

correct engine 'D# and speeds and the dri!ing is always !ery smooth without any

 erks. This contributes to longer life of the dri!e train parts of the car including

longer tyre life. Automatic cars do not re"uire clutch plate replacements.

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Bne disad!antage of automatic cars, people say is the ability of automatic cars to

get "uick acceleration when you want to o!ertake. This is not true. All you need to

do to get "uick acceleration in an automatic car is to :Eick =own: the accelerator of

the automatic car to the floor, and this will down shift the gear down, re! up the

engine and you will get the necessary acceleration re"uired to o!ertake.

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Research Tool

  +uestionnaireA set of printed or written "uestions with a choice of answers, de!ised for the

 purposes of a sur!ey or statistical study

Personal Intervie$ Techni"ue for gathering information throughface-to-face contact with indi!iduals. t pro!ides the best opportunity to obtain

information through probing for clearer explanations. 

Sample Si,e 3 400

Type of sampling3 'andom sampling

Place3 The sur!ey was conducted in different location in ;areilly

city.

pproach

The approach used by a sur!eyor for the proect !aries with the purpose of the

sur!ey. Hnder this report, GIuantitati!e J Iualitati!e approachK both are used as

 per the re"uirements of the sur!ey.

Statistical Tools

"epresentation of statistical data by diagram# graphs# charts or

pictures is more e!ective than tabular representation being easily

intelligible to a layman# indeed diagrams is most essentia

whenever it is re%uired to convey any statistical information to the

general publicTest of hypothesis

 $hi- s"uare test L a statistical method assessing the goodness of fit between a set

of obser!ed !alues and those expected theoretically .

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Data !resentation an" anal#sis $ender

#ale 60

emale /0

Total 400According to the research 601 of the respondents are male and /01 are female, as

males are more inclined towards dri!ing cars as compared to female .

-amily income .annual/

Abo!e 40 ?akh 4+

8 ?akh To 40 ?akh /9

?akh To 8 ?akh /8

4 ?akh To ?akh /9

?ess Than 4 ?akh 9

Total 400

According to the research , /91 of the respondents ha!e 8 lakh to 40 lakh of

annual family income , /91 of the respondents also ha!e 4 lakh to lakh of

income , /81 of the respondents ha!e lakh to 8 lakh of income , 4+1 ha!e

abo!e 40 lakh and rest are ha!ing less than 4 lakh .

$%ESTIO&&AIRE an" RESPO&SES

I4. 2ow many cars do you ownM

 %one 46

4 4

/ /+

9

+ 9#ore Than + 4

Total 400

 According to the research 31% of the respondents say they have only 1 car , 24% of 

the respondents say they have 2 cars , 18% say they have no car , 13% say they

have more than 4 , 7% say they have 3 and rest say they have 4 cars .

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Q2. If none , Are you planning to uy in near future !

es 70

 %o +0

Total 400

According to the research , 701 the respondents say they are planning to buy and

rest are not planning .

Q3. 2ow many years of dri!ing experience do you ha!eM

 %o xperience /

4-8 ears +

7-40 ears 47

Abo!e 40 46

Total 400

According to the research, +1 of the respondents are ha!ing 4 to 8 years of

dri!ing experience , /1 of the respondents are ha!ing no dri!ing experience , 461

are ha!ing abo!e 40 years of dri!ing experience and rest 7 to 40 years of dri!ing

experience .

Q4.

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factor, on an a!erage respondents say interior is most important for them and on an

a!erage respondents say engine capacity is also important .

Q5. Are you aware, about the auto manual transmission cars M

es 68

 %o 48

TBTA? 400According to the research , 681 of the respondents are aware about the auto manual

transmission cars and rest are not , as this is new technology in this era which is

creating an interest for the new buyers of car.

Q6 . 2ow you get to know about auto manual transmission carsM

Tele#ision /

Ne0spapers 40

Internet /6!ompany (utlets 4/

(thers

Total 12

According to the research, 9.7+1 of the respondents are getting aware from

tele!ision, /.5+1 are through internet and rest from others ways . As people like to

gather the information before going company outlet from the internet and people

watch T> in which they look on the ad!ertisements.

Q7 .

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asy To 'epair 8

Bthers

Total 25

According to the research, +7.+/ 1 say they prefer manual gear cars because of its

low maintenance cost , /4.+/1 says that they prefer because of its low prices .

Q9. 'ate auto manual transmission cars from -8 to 8, regarding following features

according to your perceptionM

  'ati

ng

factors

-8 -+ - -/ -4 4 / + 8 tota

l

$omfort

le!el

44 40 8 9 8 48 6 8 4 400

asy to

dri!e

+0 44 6 / 4/ 46 0 / 8 / 400

uel

efficiency

8 0 / 0 8 7 0 0 0 4 400

 price 9 47 49 40 / 48 4 7 / 400

#aintenanc

e cost

0 / 4/ 4/ /6 8 / + / 400

weight +9 9 40 8 7 6 4 7 6 / 400

=urability /8 40 48 + 46 9 40 / 7 400

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According to the research# most of the people0s perception is

negative regarding auto manual transmission cars

I40. According to you what is the disad!antage of manual transmission cars M

More applications and s6ills

re7uired

+0

8ess smooth /9

Difficult to dri#e 4+

8ess comfortable 45

Total 344

According to the research, +0 1 of the respondents say for manual cars more

applications and skills are re"uired , /91 say it is less smooth , 451 say less

comfortable and rest say it is difficult to dri!e

Test o1 h#!othesis

Test 3'

To check if there is any significant relationship between family income and the no.

of cars. At the significance le!el of 81 .

Solution3- $hi L s"uare test has been applied .

9o3 There is no significant relationship between the income and no. of cars.

933 There is significant relationship between the income and no. of cars.

8e#el of significance N 8 1

Degree of freedom N (r-4) (c-4) N (/-4) (8-4) N +

No: of 

cars:

Income

4 or upto ; < or more Total

Abo!e 40 lakh 6 7 4+

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8 to 40 lakh 4+ 7 /0

to 8 lakh / 8 /6

4 to lakh /4 7 /9

?es than 4 lakh 7 8 44

Total =; ;1 344

-o fe .fo'fe/ .fo'fe/; .fo'fe/;>fe

1 40.06 -/.06 +./7+ 0.+/5

5 .4/ /.06 +./7+ 4.4/

3 4+.+ -0.+ 0.47 0.0+0

5 8.7 0.+ 0.47 0.0/6

;< /0.7 /.6+ 6.0787 0.+00

2 .6+ -/.6+ 6.0787 4.0/6;3 45.++ 4.87 /.+7 0.4/8

5 9.87 -4.87 /.+/7 0./4

5 9.5/ 4.5/ .767+ 0.+78

2 .06 4.5/ .767+ 4.457

Total 8.48

Table !alue at 8 1 le!el of significance N @:11

2ere calculated !alue O table !alue

2ence we will accept the null hypothesis.

That means there is no significance relationship between the income and the no. of

cars.

Test ;'

To check if there is any significant relationship between gender and the preference

for type of car.

Bf interest rate at the significance le!el of 8 1.

Solution3-$hi L s"uare test has been applied .

9o3 There is no significant relationship between the gender and preference.

933 There is significant relationship between the gender and preference .

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8e#el of significance N 8 1

Degree of freedom N (r-4) (c-4) N (/-4) (/-4)

N 4

$ender

preference

Male female Total

manual +0 4+ 8+

Auto manual +0 7 +7

T(T8 14 ;4 344

fo -e .fo'fe/ .fo'fe/; .fo'fe/;>fe

4 +./ -./ 40./+ 0./93 4/.6 ./ 40./+ 0.5+6

4 7.6 ./ 40./+ 0./96

5 5./ -./ 40./+ 4.44

total /.897

Table !alue at 8 1 le!el of significance N

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8e#el of significance N 8 1

Degree of freedom N (r-4) (c-4) N (8-4) (/-4)

N +

  Income

price

4'2 la6h More than 2

la6h

Total

4 40 40 /0

/ 5 8 4+

4 44 /+

+ 48 9 //

8 4+ 7 /0T(T8 53

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That means there is no significant relationship between the income and the price .

4in"in0s  #ost of the respondents own / cars.

#ost of the respondents are planning to buy a new car.

#ost of the respondents are ha!ing a experience of 4 to 8 years.

Bn an a!erage Drice doesnCt affect purchase beha!ior but other factors are most

important which are affecting their purchase beha!ior.

#ost of the people are aware about auto manual transmission cars.

#ost of the respondents are aware through internet and tele!ision.

#ore than a!erage respondents prefer manual gear cars.

 #ost of the respondents say that they prefer manual gear cars due to its low

maintenance cost.

DeopleCs perception about auto manual gear cars is negati!e according to all the

factors.

#ost of the respondents say in manual gear cars more skills are re"uired .

Concl2sion

B!er the last couple of year the ndia automoti!e industry has seen a number of

new technologies find its way to the passenger car segment . Auto manual

transmission cars is the new concept in this scenario , but according to the

research most of the respondents are aware about this new technology i.e Auto

manual transmission through the tele!ision and internet , still they prefer manual

gear cars on the congested and busy roads of ;areilly . Also people rated automanual transmission cars towards the negati!e side in relation to !arious factors

like price , comfort le!el , maintenance cost , fuel efficiency etc still the manual

gear cars ha!e certain limitation. 

inally we can say that people are aware about new technology i.e auto manual

transmission cars but their perception is negati!e towards it

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