Re: [AMC-List] Another Re; E Stick, now Drivers

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: "John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx>
" 
" Now there is a big push to get the snowmobile variable speed automatics
" out in the market. So far not overly successful. Audi, Saturn and others
" in the last couple of years (now no longer offered). The Dutch Daf in
" the 60's or so and one of the offerings in the Daimler Chrysler line up
" in the last couple of years. 

daf is now owned by volvo.  their 'variomatic' was successful because
the car was so small the engine was only about snowmobile size - iirc
a 600cc flat twin.  like snowmobiles it was aimed at convenience; it
was not particularly efficient.  scaling and improving it have not
been easy.

the subaru justy also had a variomatic-derived tranny, fairly
successful, but it isn't much larger than the daf was.
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