Re: [AMC-List] AMC-List Digest, Vol 11, Issue 48

[Keleigh Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxx>]

"For yeasr now I've wanted to drive on of the new variable trans cars to 
see what it felt like! I wonder if it as unusual a feeling as the 
E-stick! Nissan uses one in it's high horsepower Maximas, should be a 
blast to test drive!"

It takes getting used to, that's for sure. If you floor the throttle 
from a stop, the engine quickly runs up to just below red-line, and then 
stays there as the car goes faster. When you let off, it quickly drops 
off to a very low speed at a cruise.

Keleigh

amc-list-request@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 8:37:47 -0800
> From: Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Another Re; E Stick, now Drivers
> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: John Elle <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Someone and I can't remember who, was it White?, made a vairable transmission back in the 1910's that was a large heavy flywheel mounted to an enegine and the way the car was driven was the engine speed was a constant and you moved a lever which moved the drive along the face of the flywheel. Starting close to center for low speed and torque moving out toward the edge as speed increased.
>   I remember reading the artice that stated the things had so much torque you could put a front tire against a tree and the car would climb it vertically!
>   What I can't remember is the specifics of how it was made and worked nor who made the thing! I know I remember it was never mass produced. I assume it was due to a lack of reliabilty. 
>    I always thought the concept was so simple that it couldn't possibly work!
> For yeasr now I've wanted to drive on of the new variable trans cars to see what it felt like! I wonder if it as unusual a feeling as the E-stick! Nissan uses one in it's high horsepower Maximas, should be a blast to test drive!
> --
> Mark Price
> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> Morgantown, WV
>
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