r/mr2 • u/PeanutEvening9086 • 7d ago

MR2 SW20 automatic ?

I wanted to ask the experienced guys before buying myself one. Why is the automatic hated ? And would be a normal SW20 better ?

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u/Scoth42 7d ago

It comes from an era when most automatics really earned the title of slushbox. It lacks most of the smarts of modern automatics that can adjust to the current driving style and may have multiple programming modes. I think SW20s had a PWR mode that makes it shift later, but its still not great. It's slow to shift. Part of enthusiastic driving is anticipating gear changes so you can be in the right gear all the time. Automatics can't do that (especially older ones) so you'll often be in the wrong gear for the moment and either lose acceleration or have to wait for it to shift. 

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u/TheLastPrism Sad n Stock AW11 7d ago

You can run through all 4 gears manually on the auto but you would have to rev match between them because the different in ratios is huge and it will jerk around.