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Old 02-19-2020, 01:47 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CVTCivic View Post
The CVT of the Civic has noticeable gear changes. It feels a bit like a normal autmomatic transmission. I'm not a big fan of that, but car makers are programming the CVTs like that, because there are too many people who think continuous acceleration is something bad, I guess.
Oh! Then it probably also has a "manual mode", no? On the shifter or buttons/paddles on the steering wheel?

That's an opportunity to save a bit more fuel, by telling the computer to shift up to the next "gear" at the lowest possible road speed.

My aunt had an Audi with a CVT that behaved so much like a conventional automatic transmission that I had to look up the specs to confirm! Very convincing until you watch what happens in "top gear", which had a lot more RPM variability than the lower "gears".

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