Date:         Sat, 15 May 2004 22:27:57 -0400
Reply-To:     Kevin Barry <krbarry@BELLATLANTIC.NET>
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From:         Kevin Barry <krbarry@BELLATLANTIC.NET>
Subject:      Re: CV Transmissions
Comments: To: tmiller <tmiller@VCMAILS.COM>
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Well, let's see.  Audi offers one in the 2 wheel drive A4 and it's the only
tranny available in the A4 convertible.
Saturn had one in the Vue but I think that may have been dropped recently
in favor of a far superior Honda drivetrain.
The Mini Cooper offers one as the automatic, not available in the Cooper S
fortunately.
I believe Toyota has one in the Prius.
Honda had one a few years ago available in the Civic but I don't recall if
it's still around.
I'm not sure if I got all of them.
Personally, I think the direct shift manuals beat just about everything out
there.  Only one around right now is in the Audi TT.
KB

At 08:45 AM 5/15/2004, tmiller 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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