Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!andrew From: andrew@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: Gearless Transmissions--Finally - (nf) Message-ID: <859@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:43:17 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.859 Posted: Thu Feb 9 23:43:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Feb-84 21:41:33 EST Lines: 8 #R:sjuvax:-13400:inmet:2700048:000:325 inmet!andrew Feb 8 08:27:00 1984 The CVT was used on DAF cars as far back as the late '50s. A few of them even made it to the US during the first wave of imports circa 1960 (remember Wartburg, Borgward, Skoda, Hillman, Auto Union (now Audi), etc.?) The DAF sold here was called the DAFodil, and it used the CVT with rubber/leather belts to transmit power.