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Old 05-11-2011, 03:19 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bwilson4web View Post
My studies of the Honda CVT approach didn't not excite me as I keep seeing too many friction losses and moving parts. I really think good 4+ speed, manual or semi-automatic, 4+ speed gear box is much more efficient than the Honda sliding-cone, CVT. I don't have any direct, hands-on experience with the Honda CVTs but just from my looking at the approach.
Let's see what CVT equiped Insights do, and what the 6 speed manual CR-Z does :

Insight II :
Overview: Honda - Insight - Spritmonitor.de

CR-Z
Overview: Honda - CR-Z - Spritmonitor.de

The best of the CR-Zs is not beating the best CVT-Insights.
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