Confuses me too. An article I read definitely talked about a 'six-speed
CVT', even making the point that the 'old' CVT transmissions had nothing to
change, but didn't explain how it worked.
PaulH.
http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.hunt1/
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Matthews <simon_atwork@hotmail.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 21 July 1999 20:03
Subject: Re: mgs@autox.team.net digest #1677 Wed Jul 21 02:05:00 MDT 1999
>It seems to me that Top Gear has not got its story straight on this -- if
>the gearbox is continuously variable you don't need to 'change' gears --
>hence no control is required. You might want a 'performance' or 'economy'
>setting, but even this should not really be required on a CVT.
>
>I have to admit my knowledge of CVTs is dated -- There was a project at the
>Lucas Research Centre working on a CVT controller in the late 70's when I
>was there.
>
>Simon
>
>>- --
>>Kai M. Radicke -- kradick1@ic3.ithaca.edu
>>Not the only Triumph TR6 @ Ithaca College
>>
>>- ----
>>
>>http://www.topgear.com/news/current/news005/story.html
>>
>>MGF steps out
>>
>>LONDON, 20 July 99: The shape remains the same, but the Rover MGF is about
>>to develop a rather nifty wheel-mounted gearchange system called
>>'Steptronic'.
>>Available as an option on the 1.8i model, MG's new Continuously Variable
>>Transmission (CVT) can be used as an automatic, a semi-automatic straight
>>l
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