On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:55:13AM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Igor Roshchin >> Sorry, Paul, - it might not be exactly what you a looking for, but I >> thought I'd share this thought. >> >> This is not the cutting-edge technology, but it is something I am >> rather impressed from the technical point of view: the stepless >> transmission in mid-consumer-level passenger cars (e.g. Nissan Rogue, >> Nissan Versa). >> >> I heard about their existence several years ago, and I heard >> that some companies have been simulating gear-shifting (the jerky >> motion) on top of it, but I didn't appreciate that they appeared >> in mid-to-low level consumer cars. >> They came to the market so quietly that many consumers (including >> technically-reasonable ones) don't even know about existence of such >> technology. > > A competent driver doesn't produce "the jerky motion" when shifting.
That very much depends on the car. In the cars being discussed, which are the mid-level consumer models, there is almost always a noticeable jerkiness when shifting non-CVT automatics. the relevant comparison isn't between CVTs and manual transmissions - it's between "traditional" and CVT automatic boxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
