When choosing a new car, first-time buyers tend to overlook the type of transmission it uses. Sure, 97% of drivers in the U.S. now drive automatic vehicles, leading many to assume that that's the only ...

Were the early CVTs that we saw in cars, especially in Nissans in the early 2000s, unreliable and weird to drive? Sure.

Despite all the benefits of a CVT transmission, it does have some drawbacks. A gear-based CVT is looking to address these drawbacks, but how does it work?

A modern car's CVT or Continuously Variable Automatic Transmission is as complex as a conventional gear-driven automatic gearbox. However, it functions differently than a standard automatic and has no ...

What is a continuously variable transmission? Is it better to drive, more reliable, more efficient, or better than an automatic? The automatic transmission as Americans know it today has been around ...

Although they might share similar purposes, you can't swap or mix CVT fluid and Automatic Transmission Fluid due to their distinct ways of working.