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I drove one with the 9-speed auto.
If you interested in first impressions:
-Super quiet. Slight diesel clatter at idle from outside the car; mostly inaudible from inside.
-Sounds almost like a gasser when it revs inside.
-Very peppy from a stop (and through the first few gears) and none of the exacerbated throttle lag from the earlier 2.0 TD
-Transmission's very good about knowing what gear to be in *except* when you do sort of a rolling stop (like to make a left turn). Very smooth gear changes compared to the old Aisin in the 2014-15 CTD.
-Not a ton of top-end or 50+ MPH power, but there is tons of torque to scoot you along, up hills, and to pass moderately quickly. Flooring it and dropping gears doesn't deliver much additional acceleration than lower RPMs.
-There is not as much sound insulation as the 1st gen CTD, but at the same time, the car doesn't feel massively nose heavy like the 1st gen. Aside from the additional torque, it is much like a gas Gen 2 from behind the wheel.
If you interested in first impressions:
-Super quiet. Slight diesel clatter at idle from outside the car; mostly inaudible from inside.
-Sounds almost like a gasser when it revs inside.
-Very peppy from a stop (and through the first few gears) and none of the exacerbated throttle lag from the earlier 2.0 TD
-Transmission's very good about knowing what gear to be in *except* when you do sort of a rolling stop (like to make a left turn). Very smooth gear changes compared to the old Aisin in the 2014-15 CTD.
-Not a ton of top-end or 50+ MPH power, but there is tons of torque to scoot you along, up hills, and to pass moderately quickly. Flooring it and dropping gears doesn't deliver much additional acceleration than lower RPMs.
-There is not as much sound insulation as the 1st gen CTD, but at the same time, the car doesn't feel massively nose heavy like the 1st gen. Aside from the additional torque, it is much like a gas Gen 2 from behind the wheel.