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

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm probably too old to accept that! Sounds almost as creepy as the E-stick!
I like to have some control over things!
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Keleigh Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> "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>
> > Message-ID: <24828622.1166719067177.JavaMail.root@web18>
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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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