Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rsp From: rsp@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: CVTs Message-ID: <179@opus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 19:03:06 EST Article-I.D.: opus.179 Posted: Tue Feb 21 19:03:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 05:49:45 EST References: <111@ccieng2.UUCP> <13200004@hpfcla.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 23 I've read several opinions now about how people would like CVT's to behave. Here's one more... I very much like the idea of a manual transmission. No computer I've ever met could accurately infer exactly what I wanted to do. If those kind of computers did exist alot of us would be out of jobs! But manual transmissions only allow me a *limited* selection of gear ratios. I think we can agree that 5 speeds provide more flexibility than 4 speeds. What I'd like to see is a *manual* CVT! Something akin to the pitch control of a propeller driven aircraft. Instead of 4 or 5 gear positions, the "gear" selector of my manual CVT would move smoothly from "low" to "high". I don't really care whether it uses a manual clutch or some sort of fluid clutch (remember the old Renault *magnetic* clutches?!). Perhaps the CVT "computer" could have a "manual" setting as well as various "automatic" modes (economy, power, etc.).... Let's hear it for FREEDOM OF CHOICE!!! Russ Panneton NBI, Inc. Boulder CO