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From: segre@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: Continuous Transmission
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 10:20:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 10:20:00 1985
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Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!segre    Nov  8 09:20:00 1985


When I was living in Italy (80-81) I seem to recall that Fiat was road testing
a bunch of Ritmos (Stradas in the US) with this kind of transmission. They
gave them to taxi drivers to see how they held up under tough conditions.

I don't think this is anything new, as some other (older) European cars* used
to have this kind of transmission - the problem was the belts would break
rather easily. The newer Fiats had steel belts which weren't supposed to 
break.

Alberto Segre
Coordinated Science Lab
Univ. of Illinois @ Urbana


* I think it was some Dutch manufacturer - is it DAP or something like that?