Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: Kibitoshin
If CVTs are so good then why don't they put it in trucks or in high torque applications then? I thought they were the demise of planetary automatics when they were first introduced and yet we are seeing 7, 8, 9, even 10 speed automatics. Isn't a CVT supposed to have infinite gear ratios? Why isn't it in trucks yet then.
I'd like to see a CVT behind a Ram Cummins or Ford Ecoboost TTV6 to convince me to get something with a CVT.
Yep-passenger cars have the same requirements as big rigs......
That was my thought. Might as well require seats with shocks in them, high/low range, air brakes. Different vehicles, different needs.
I know some deride it as a snowmobile transmission, yet don't all snowmobiles use them? They seem to work well there. Are we to remove them from snowmobiles because they don't work well in cars?