From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:opsf99kctqeipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
>> It is a really cool thing to drive (I've driven a new Nissan Primera
>> with a
>> CVT), and are very fuel efficient, because the enginne can be kept at or
>> close to the optimal rpm at all times. I suspect that if they were more
>> widely used, it could be simple enough to even build (or tune) engines
>> that
>> are "optimised" for a very narrow rpm area.
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> The Honda Insight with CVT is good on gas but still not as good as the
> manual model.

I can't remember for sure, but I think Nissan was advertising their version
as giving a (slightly) better gas mileage than the manual. I could remember
wrong, though.


Antti Kurenniemi
(but the engines are the same, so not "optimisation" done for CVT's)

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