Q&A with Prodrive: transmission trends
Author: Matthew Beecham | 21 July 2011
While Prodrive is best known for its motorsport achievements, about half the company's turnover comes from engineering activity in the mainstream automotive sector. In this interview, Matthew Beecham talked with Simon Leleu, Prodrive team leader for transmission and driveline systems, about trends in the take-up of AMTs, CVTs and DCTs.
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