I have heard that auto manufactures were experimenting the CVT designs. But as Jack said I am a manual person when given the choice over anything automatic. Definitely hate those consumer rental equipment with the hydrostatic drives; so limited what they can when compared to my tractor with a manual transmission.
The only CVT transmissions I have experience with and it is limited is the ATVs and UTVs which not seen a lot problems but these are off the road vehicles. Some these do have multi-speed manual transmissions attached but there is no shifting on the fly.
The book is out on the General Transmissions RS800 CVT transmission as I have only seen one. Not a whole lot confident in the plastic housing and do seen several complaints the last few years performance issues.
If my understanding of the CVT is correct it eliminates the slippage of the automatic torque convertors which depends fluid resistance to drive components. With the CVT there is no slippage except at idle speeds. I just wondering if they are still going use fluid version of the automatic to drive a multiple speed transmission shifting as the CVT in my thinking would just need to replace the torque convertor.
