Main Responsibilities. Marine engineers are responsible for the design, maintenance and repair of the various mechanical systems in a ship. A marine engineer often works closely with the architect who designed the initial blueprint for a shipâs structure.
The transmission wildcard here is the Ram truck. Ram doesnât offer a medium-duty-truck transmission in its pickup. So weâve chosen to compare the automatics from Ford and GM to the Aisin Seiki AS68RC six-speed found in Ramâs cab-and-chassis trucksâand not the 68RFE six-speed used in Ram pickups. Will this Aisin Seiki be the next transmission offered in the Ram pickup once its power goes up? We wouldnât be surprised.
Stick it in D, tap the gas, and trust the flux capacitor under the hood to do whatâs right. In the event these cruisers deign to pass one of their own, a nudge of the accelerator provides extra thrust with no hint of shift shock. Audi, Honda, Hyundai, Subaru, and Toyota all make their own CVTs. Nissan owns a controlling interest in JATCO, the firm that supplies 49 percent of the worldâs gear-free transmissions to Chrysler, GM, MiÂ­tsuÂ­bishi, and Suzuki. In addition, nearly half of Nissanâs current U.S. models offer a JATCO-supplied CVT.