Re: 2012 Subaru Impreza 2.0i Limited: Review notes: An attractive fuel-efficient and all-wheel-drive combo

> > Wikipedia is your friend. =A0You can't get much more solid than with a = CVT, > > there is not even a clutch in some cases: > > >
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> Thanks for that pointer but my impression was that even the CVT-s use > some kind of slipping hydraulic torque converter as the following quote > indicates from the bottom of that Wikipedia article: > > "In 2010, the US Patent Office issued patent number 7,647,768 B1 for a > series of hydraulic Torque Converters that use hydraulic friction rather > than mechanical friction as a CVT." >

patent is issued but are there any know applications of it just yet? Don't think there are any

I could not feel much difference in engine braking between M/T and slushbox though I haven't driven a shushbox downhill in quite a while so can't be sure

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You might be right but I just wanted to explain what my impression was of CVTs, however wrong that may have been.

Forgive my ignorance (again,) but what exactly is slushbox? Another name for CVT?

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a proper name for a conventional 2 to 8 speed automatics

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