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Originally Posted by some_other_dave
You've said that a couple of times. Can you provide a source?
Traditional torque-converter automatic gearboxes are quite complex, what with planetary gearsets and immensely fussy shift valve bodies. Manuals have individual paired gears, and the shifting mechanisms are just sliding forks and rods.
CVTs do seem to be much simpler and probably less expensive to build.
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Bob Lutz ( former CEO of General Motors Corp.) wrote about it in one of his 'Go Lutz Yourself' columns in ROAD & TRACK, or MOTOR TREND.