I drive a manual transmission car and I find my mileage to be comparable if not lower to an automatic transmission car. While activating cruise control, my mileage rises by a few kms because of this I have always wondered which transmission for my next car would be the best, considering mileage to be an important factor.
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First, as others mentioned, driving style is far more important than transmission type. That said:
CVT > fixed-speed automatic > manual, at least for modern cars.
There used to be tradeoffs of transmission losses for automatics, but this has been almost entirely engineered out in modern cars. Automatics will always shift at the right time, where humans never will. And CVTs can even keep the perfect gear ratio.
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