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Originally Posted by Miller88
CVTs don't work. End of story. EXCELLENT idea, but no one can make them reliable. Most of these will be sold with automatic, and when the CVT comes apart at 70K miles and the owners are not going to be happy with dropping $7,000 on a transmission ...
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I don't know it that's the end of the story. I know the CVTs from the late 1990s Hondas were considered unreliable, but both Toyota and Honda have been putting them in their Prius and Insight cars for years now. Many of them must have well more than 100,000 miles and even 200,000 at this point. I have not heard of inordinate troubles. But, I'd rather the manual. My replacement manaual transmission cost me $300 plus a new throw out bearing, and that's a lot less than $7K.