IIRC the Audi was built to be easily replaced, knowing well, these
will not last very long.

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
                                   92-Jetta GWC
            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

On Sat, 15 May 2004, Kevin Barry wrote:

> Well, let's see.  Audi offers one in the 2 wheel drive A4 and it's the only
> tranny available in the A4 convertible.
> Saturn had one in the Vue but I think that may have been dropped recently
> in favor of a far superior Honda drivetrain.
> The Mini Cooper offers one as the automatic, not available in the Cooper S
> fortunately.
> I believe Toyota has one in the Prius.
> Honda had one a few years ago available in the Civic but I don't recall if
> it's still around.
> I'm not sure if I got all of them.
> Personally, I think the direct shift manuals beat just about everything out
> there.  Only one around right now is in the Audi TT.
> KB
>
> At 08:45 AM 5/15/2004, tmiller wrote:
>
> >I wondered why we haven't seem more of them.  The Justy was the last
> >time I saw one.  I still think they are a great idea.  I saw various
> >designs at the SAE show about 6-7 yers ago in Detroit that looked
> >promising.  At the time they were limited to about 160 HP or so.  I
> >would like to go back to that show this year and see how they have
> >progressed.
> >TEMiller
> >
> >Eric Zeno wrote:
> >
> >>Who are you fooling?  Auto. builder are having a hard
> >>time putting these in any car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >>
> >>tmiller wrote:
> >>
> >>>Anybody try to put a Continuously Variable transmission in a vanagon?
> >>>TEMiller
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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