Continuously variable transmissions are among the most subtly divisive pieces of kit the automotive industry has yet assembled. A near-infinite number of gear ratios allows cars to extract a few extra ...

Some things are just made to go together. Peanut butter and jelly, wrenching on your car and knuckles that make you look like you’ve been in a a bar fight, a a Mercedes SL and its lazy automatic ...

The two most common types of transmissions are manual and automatic. But there is a third type called a continuously variable transmission (CVT). CVTs have been around since the late 1980s but are now ...