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Originally Posted by Altitude

That's one of those things I've always heard too, but never heard the why of it. Anyone here know?

My understanding is that the transmission fluid pump is driving by the input shaft from the torque converter. If the engine isn't turning the torque converter then the pump isn't moving fluid around the transmission, but everything's still spinning at high speed. This may not be true of the Yaris as it doesn't DFCO, but I really don't know.

Manuals, on the other hand, work as an oil bath IIRC... the bottom of the spinning gears are always in the gear oil picking some up and moving it around the transmission.