It's about 50/50 here on the forum, but you're right: in the wild it's more like 90% CVT:
Thread: Surprising garage stats: comparing numbers of CVT vs. manual Mirage owners
It's about 50/50 here on the forum, but you're right: in the wild it's more like 90% CVT:
Thread: Surprising garage stats: comparing numbers of CVT vs. manual Mirage owners
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 62.4 mpg (US) ... 26.5 km/L ... 3.8 L/100 km ... 74.9 mpg (Imp)
Preach!
That's true as far as the stereotypical "gearhead" American review is concerned.
2 of the best "mainstream" U.S. reviews of the Mirage that I can think of were from guys who drove the 5-speed: Torchinsky from Jalopnik, and Glucker who was doing Auto-by-tel reviews back then.
Torchinsky also went on to write probably one of the best defenses of the Mirage and criticisms of out-of-touch reviewers. (Ironically, one of Torchinsky's former co-workers produced what is possibly the most damaging review of the Mirage.)
Then, as far as I know, Mitsu stopped making the manual car available. I never saw another manual review in the States (or Canada for that matter). I once pointed this out to Mitsu Canada's PR manager and he thought I was kidding when I said the Mirage press fleet should be biased toward base trim manuals.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 62.4 mpg (US) ... 26.5 km/L ... 3.8 L/100 km ... 74.9 mpg (Imp)
Top_Fuel (02-28-2019)
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 62.4 mpg (US) ... 26.5 km/L ... 3.8 L/100 km ... 74.9 mpg (Imp)
I'm assuming they give the press and reviewers higher optioned cars to test which if it's a gt is gonna have to be a cvt. If they gave out a base model 5 speed they'd probably get ridiculed even more about the lack of options.
I guess you're probably onto something with manual's though, I'm sure there's a bunch who can't drive a stick. It's the millennial anti theft device.
And hey, a cvt Mirage is pretty exciting to drive, when you first pull into traffic after not driving one for a week and quickly get reminded that it's not gonna get up to speed as fast as I expected and a semi is now coming up fast from behind. It takes some getting used to.
Now I might understand why some people drive so slow, they're waiting for their heart to catch up after almost getting t-boned after making a left turn in front of oncoming traffic
Last edited by Fummins; 03-01-2019 at 02:06 PM.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage SE wussie cvt edition. 1.2 automatic: 37.7 mpg (US) ... 16.0 km/L ... 6.2 L/100 km ... 45.3 mpg (Imp)