• commandar@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    The transmission in those things is an amazing level of suck, too. It’s this bizarre automatic manual thing that’s just awful to drive.

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      8 months ago

      Porsche measures their automatic gear changes in milliseconds. Smart measures them in geologic time scales.

      I truly don’t understand why they didn’t put a CVT in those 2nd generation cars (the ones sold in North America). It’s the perfect application! Small car, not a lot of power, efficiency minded.

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        8 months ago

        If the smart car was made today it probably would have a cvt. But an extremely budget car back then, cvts weren’t as common.