not right now it has been discontinued because of design/manufacturing problems. i was working at one of the machine shops supplying a part for this trans. can you say global manufacturing => parts made in michigan, assembly in hungary, sale in the the states. there are about 20 cars sold in the states with cv transmissions. you will see them more as they get the first generation bugs worked out because they have lest internal parts than a automatic transmission. my girlfriend drives a honda city with a cv and her only complaint is that it is to easy to speed due to the smoothness of the "shifts". jonathan On Sat, 15 May 2004, Edward Maglott wrote: > Isn't that Saturn SUV available with one? > Edward > > At 08:45 AM 5/15/2004, you wrote: > >I wondered why we haven't seem more of them. The Justy was the last > >time I saw one. I still think they are a great idea. I saw various > >designs at the SAE show about 6-7 yers ago in Detroit that looked > >promising. At the time they were limited to about 160 HP or so. I > >would like to go back to that show this year and see how they have > >progressed. > >TEMiller > > > >Eric Zeno wrote: > > > >>Who are you fooling? Auto. builder are having a hard > >>time putting these in any car!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > >> > >>tmiller wrote: > >> > >>>Anybody try to put a Continuously Variable transmission in a vanagon? > >>>TEMiller > >>> > >> > |
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