Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:35:42 +0100 From: Martin Rich <M.G.Richnopsam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: GM to increase SAAB lineup
On 18 Apr 2003 18:38:01 GMT, davehinznopsamcop.net wrote: >Someone who looks an awful lot like Martin Rich <M.G.Richnopsam.ac.uk> wrote: > >> but relevant if you're >> interested in CVTs. The first cars made by CVT were made by the Dutch >> company DAF in the 1960s (or possibly very late 1950s). > >Well, maybe one particular design, but I've seen cars from >the 1920's or earlier, which had a CVT. TouchÈ . I should of course have said 'the first car with a CVT that I know about and that is a direct antecedent to the CVTs being sold now' :-) > >This isn't to be confused, of course, with the belt-pulley-cone >type CVT which may be the variety you're mentioning. The DAF CVT used belts and cones and there were various jokes around about DAFs being 'cars driven by rubber bands' Martin
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