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Article: Driving report: Fiat Uno with CVT. (continuously variable transmission) (evaluation) (evaluation)
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 1988
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Driving report: Fiat Uno with CVT
The close-coupled, roller-coaster hills of Dartmoor in England's West Country are an excellent proving ground for a continuously variable transmission. With the standard manual gearbox in this little Fiat Uno Selecta, I would have been busy clutch pedaling and shift-lever sawing to keep up my rolling momentum on the corrugated terrain. And a conventional automatic would have been notching up and down through the gears, while a churning torque converter wasted fuel. But the 1.1-liter engine in this Fiat was twisting power through a CVT; so driving was quiet and relaxed as the transmission glided smoothly and quietly through its ...