Transmission

The manual transmission continues to become more and more of a rarity in modern cars – especially here in the US. After all, most modern automatics are faster and more fuel efficient than their manual predecessors.

Apparently, Honda is doing one better than the 10-speed transmissions that are coming to new vehicles, as a recent Japanese patent application detailed an 11-speed transmission the company is working on. The application outlines a three clutch, 11-speed transmission that sounds more like it is aiming at fuel economy than performance.

It’s not on par with what Local Motors achieved, but mechanical engineer Eric Harrell still pulled off an amazing job with these scale models of the Toyota 22RE engine and W56 transmission. Eric reverse engineered both machines, painstakingly measuring each of their parts before recreating them as 3D models.