TR3CK
08/10/2005, 03h26
Pendant qu'au Japon un grand nombre de modele l'offre et qu'en Europe ca a aussi une certaine populariter, il commencait a etre temps qu'on aille plus de choix ici en terme de modele offrant le CVT.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=107453
Nissan Anticipates Major Shift to CVTs
Date Posted 10-03-2005
DETROIT — Nissan plans to dramatically boost the use of continuously variable transmissions in its future vehicles, installing up to 1 million CVTs a year worldwide.
Jed Connelly, Nissan North America senior vice president of sales and marketing, said the automaker also plans to build and sell up to 200,000 hybrids worldwide in the next few years.
Nissan is quickly ramping up CVT installations, especially in North America, where up to 40 percent of the company's products — some 400,000 vehicles a year — could be equipped with the stepless transmissions. The Murano crossover vehicle currently is available with an optional CVT, and the new 2007 Versa small car will offer Nissan's new Xtronic CVT as an option.
Nissan's Jatco affiliate will supply many of the transmissions from a new plant in Mexico, which also will send CVTs to Chrysler for use in the 2007 Dodge Caliber.
What this means to you: If you like Nissan products you better learn to like CVTs as well as they may become the only option in some models.
Il ne faut pas oublier la Honda Fit que sa transmission automatique sera aussi CVT. On a aussi la nouvelle Mercedes Classe-B qui en a une.
La nouvelle Toyota Yaris aurait du en avoir une aussi, quand qu'on pense que toute les Vitz automatique au Japon sont CVT (sauf la 4WD qu'on n'a pas non plus). Mais ca devrait pas prendre de temps d'apres moi pour que Toyota se rattrape en voyant la Fit avec une CVT sur le territoire Nord Americain. En attendant j'ai hate de savoir ce que les Yaris d'Europe auront comme transmission automatique...
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=107453
Nissan Anticipates Major Shift to CVTs
Date Posted 10-03-2005
DETROIT — Nissan plans to dramatically boost the use of continuously variable transmissions in its future vehicles, installing up to 1 million CVTs a year worldwide.
Jed Connelly, Nissan North America senior vice president of sales and marketing, said the automaker also plans to build and sell up to 200,000 hybrids worldwide in the next few years.
Nissan is quickly ramping up CVT installations, especially in North America, where up to 40 percent of the company's products — some 400,000 vehicles a year — could be equipped with the stepless transmissions. The Murano crossover vehicle currently is available with an optional CVT, and the new 2007 Versa small car will offer Nissan's new Xtronic CVT as an option.
Nissan's Jatco affiliate will supply many of the transmissions from a new plant in Mexico, which also will send CVTs to Chrysler for use in the 2007 Dodge Caliber.
What this means to you: If you like Nissan products you better learn to like CVTs as well as they may become the only option in some models.
Il ne faut pas oublier la Honda Fit que sa transmission automatique sera aussi CVT. On a aussi la nouvelle Mercedes Classe-B qui en a une.
La nouvelle Toyota Yaris aurait du en avoir une aussi, quand qu'on pense que toute les Vitz automatique au Japon sont CVT (sauf la 4WD qu'on n'a pas non plus). Mais ca devrait pas prendre de temps d'apres moi pour que Toyota se rattrape en voyant la Fit avec une CVT sur le territoire Nord Americain. En attendant j'ai hate de savoir ce que les Yaris d'Europe auront comme transmission automatique...