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From: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: First import with CVT?
Message-ID: <329@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 09:47:06 EST
Article-I.D.: tekchips.329
Posted: Mon Mar  4 09:47:06 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:26:57 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Well that Yugoslavian car won't be the first import with a continuously
variable transmission!  My mother had a 1963 DAF (Dutch car) with a CVT.
The car was imported for several years.  The company that made them was
taken over by Volvo, and DAFs are currently sold in Europe as Volvos.
FYI, the car had a 2 cylinder, air cooled, 750cc engine in the front,
and a rear mounted CVT transaxle in the back.  Each rear wheel had its own
variable ratio V-belt (ie separate transmissions for each wheel!) so
there was no differential.  That way it had "Positraction" and could get
around on the snow better than a VW beetle.  Lots of interior and trunk
space, too, and it was about the cheapest car on the road (base price was
about $1200).  Performance was terrible -- much worse (!) than our family
VW microbus; top speed was about 60 mph.