

Special fluid would only allow the driver to choose the correct gear


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RE: More gears for a CVT effect
By sigmatau on 6/7/2012 2:45:00 PM , Rating: 3

The 35mpg by 2018 thing scared you? Most makers have already beat that figure for their midsize cars available now or by 2013. The Nissan Altima gets 38 and thr Ford Fusion is the same or better. This is now. By 2018, new body styles will be implemented with even better gas mileage. Impossible? Maybe in your dreams.

We are finaly get higher mpg larger cars that consumers have been askingbfor 40+ years. You can thank the government for that one.

RE: More gears for a CVT effect
By Spuke on 6/7/2012 2:53:16 PM , Rating: 3
I don't remember ANYONE asking for this until 2008. Sure as hell not in the last 40 years. BTW, you obviously don't know how CAFE is figured. I'll give you a hint, it has nothing to do with a cars EPA highway rating or any EPA mpg rating.

RE: More gears for a CVT effect
By sigmatau on 6/7/2012 4:48:10 PM , Rating: 3
And you must know absolutely nothing about anything. Consumers have been begging for better mpg since the last handfull of oil crises. Where have you been? 99+% of the market is nonethusiast.

Also your comment about the EPA's involvement is laughable at best.

RE: More gears for a CVT effect
By aebiv on 6/7/2012 7:09:38 PM , Rating: 1
99% of the market bought all those SUV's? Trucks? Cars with a V8 instead of a V6? Or with a V6 instead of a V4?

No, if 99% of the market truly cared that much about MPG, we'd all have Civics, Fiestas, and Escorts.

RE: More gears for a CVT effect
What are you talking about?

SUVs, trucks, and cars with v6 are nonenthusiast vehicles.

Wow! Keep dreaming.

RE: More gears for a CVT effect
By Spuke on 6/8/2012 12:55:41 AM , Rating: 2
Also your comment about the EPA's involvement is laughable at best.
And you can't read either LOL! CAFE requirements have NOTHING to do with EPA fuel economy figures that are posted on that sticker on your car. PERIOD! Look it up.

Yes, I'm a car enthusiast, BUT WAIT, most of my cars have been 4 cylinders! Whaaa! Before it was fashionable, I always considered fuel economy in my cars. Never owned a car that had less than 28 mpg hwy. Broke that trend when I got married and the wife wanted horses (the only vehicles with more than 4 cyl I've owned).

Regardless, I don't look at the world with a niche point of view. That's something you can't do when you're married (because she's neither a nerd nor a car nut). The point is you're wrong, look at past sales. If people were begging fot that, The Ford F-series wouldn't be number 1 seller in the US for the past 30 years straight. Chevy trucks wouldn't be runner up. Another thing, people DO care about fuel economy. :) Take rates on the lower displacement cars are ALWAYS higher than the higher displacement one's. 4 cyl's sell more than V6's, V6's sell more than V8's, etc. It's always been that way.

RE: More gears for a CVT effect
By sigmatau on 6/9/2012 2:54:06 PM , Rating: 2
I don't need to look up anything. Why would I since that is your pathetic argument. Kind of stupid don't you think?

BTW, you might need to learn to read your own posts. You went into one viscious circle and made no sense at all.

