"Icemanmaybeirunoutofthetalents" (Ice-man)
12/03/2013 at 16:52 • Filed to: None
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"Icemanmaybeirunoutofthetalents" (Ice-man)
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There are some good ones, some bad ones and some terrible ones. Guaranteed page hits and thousands of mouth-breathers posting about how cvts are the devils transmission.
Also, the new honda accord has a very decent cvt. Just saying.
Edit: Epic roadtrip-review idea! Hardibird, Orlove, Patrick, Travis and Torch each drive one and last man standing at the end of the trip gets crowned CVT King!
Textured Soy Protein
> Icemanmaybeirunoutofthetalents
12/03/2013 at 16:57 |
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I've only driven Nissan CVTs attached to 4-bangers. Mostly as rental cars, and my gf used to have an '08 Sentra.
'08 Sentra - tolerable except when trying to hold a steady 65+ mph speed on the highway w/o cruise control
'11 Sentra - mostly tolerable
'12 Altima - mostly tolerable
'13 Altima - horrendous
HammerheadFistpunch
> Textured Soy Protein
12/03/2013 at 17:15 |
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The nissan ones are the ones mostly to blame for the bad name of these, mostly because they were something of pioneers in mas produced CVT's
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> HammerheadFistpunch
12/03/2013 at 17:55 |
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The '13 Altima, the worst of the bunch, was so bad because it actively tried to fight against accelerating when you're already up to speed.
It's the most recent rental car I had, on a trip to visit my family in DC & Maryland a couple months ago. I drove all around the city and suburbs, and was consistently infuriated by that car.
I would gently step on the gas to speed up, the revs would climb for a moment, make a WAHHHNG sound, then the transmission would race to the tallest possible ratio and completely cancel out any acceleration.
The only way to make that car speed up was to floor it. The only way to not want to destroy the car was to say WAHHHNG along with the engine, although by the end of the trip my gf got pretty annoyed with me doing that.
Stef Schrader
> Icemanmaybeirunoutofthetalents
12/03/2013 at 17:58 |
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I like this idea.
Shoot, I'd help test this idea if anyone wants to get me a lot of whirring-bee-driven things to hoon.