Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!fortune!norskog From: norskog@fortune.UUCP (Lance Norskog) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: CVTs Message-ID: <2587@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 16:20:36 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2587 Posted: Mon Feb 20 16:20:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 08:07:40 EST References: <111@ccieng2.UUCP>, <13200004@hpfcla.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 12 I am not sure that belt-driven designs are suitable for high acceleration, but give me a turbo-charged four cylinder engine with a transmission like the one described above and I should be able to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds while still getting 40 MPG on the highway. Rick Dow inhp4!hpfcla!rmd Yeah, you'd have a car where both the transmission and the engine fall apart at 40,000 miles :-)