Should you thought gearboxes fitted with seven-speeds were built with a couple of a lot of, hold onto your hats: beginning this fall, 2012 300s and Dodge Battery chargers outfitted using the 3.6-liter Pentastar VVT V6 engine will have believe it or not than 8 gears to select from.  Reported from topspeed.com,  The brand new transmission, named the 845RE, is manufactured by German specialists ZF. ZF may do hi-tech transmissions for a number of Audi, BMW, Bentley, Range Rover, and Roll Royce models. Although the transmission is going to be initially provided by ZF, Chrysler states that they’ll dominate growth and development of the eight-speed rower within their Kokomo, Indiana transmission plant sometime later on.

The clever new transmission is slated to exchange the majority of the five-speeds – that is a mature version of the Mercedes-Benz designed transmission – in Chrysler’s selection including V8s. You will find several good reasons to proceed to a computerized eight-speed transmission, mainly gas mileage. Having the ability to keep your revs lower for any long time can lead to better – around 15% better – combined highway and city driving.

The 845RE is really a fully electronic transmission which includes software featuring adaptive shifting qualities based on variables for example engine torque gradients, kick lower, longitudinal and lateral acceleration, hill recognition, friction recognition, and downshift recognition. Chrysler hasn’t stated much about performance upgrades which are good new transmission, but we suspect the new eight-speed will even help you stay within torque band longer should you so decide to floor it. Obviously, when the new transmission causes it to be towards the V8 Battery chargers, we do not have to convince you to definitely floor it.