CAFE standards have been making it difficult for major automakers NOT to go CVT on many vehicles. So now we have transmissions that fail before spark plugs, weird. I’ll take a Mopar three speed torqueflite. Whatever is in my Toyota Avalon works fine, too. Anything more than six speeds is overkill.
From lack of real interest, I still notice more than a few car makers are having major trouble with their CVT.
Datsun being a major one with bad CVTs..
Been a manual trans guy for as long as I been driving.
Only went auto with my Toyota 4Runners.
Think the wife’s Subaru has a CVT, not sure, and I rarely drive the thing.
CAFE standards seriously need to be rolled back. They are why cars have become more expensive and simultaneously less reliable.
I am sick and tired of the auto industry just rolling over without a fight thinking they can keep shoving the costs and consequences off on the consumer.
CAFE standards need to die.
“CAFE standards have been making it difficult for major automakers NOT to go CVT on many vehicles. So now we have transmissions that fail before spark plugs, weird. I’ll take a Mopar three speed torqueflite. Whatever is in my Toyota Avalon works fine, too. Anything more than six speeds is overkill.”
Unless you had a 10 second car with 5.13 gears that really “hooked up”, you could not break a Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 transmission if you tried. Unfortunately, it supposedly took 18 horsepower just to run the hydraulics.