Cvt Hate...

[darrude]

Was in germany a couple of weeks back, and really pleased to get an Audi A5 cabriolet.

It had a CVT transmission. I have to say it was absolutely horrendous to the point of been dangerous. The transmission in the IS is unbelievably better. I think I understand now why people have such negativity towards the CVT's.

From a dead start, foot flat to the floor there was, what felt like a 3 second delay before the car moved (As I found out when i pulled out on a truck). My colleague is a massive fan of audi, and even he couldn't believe it.

Normal driving, it felt like driving a manual car, but a manual car where a 5 year old is in charge of the clutch. Just setting off in normal traffic I had to be careful to avoid wheel spin.

Anyway rant over....

anyone else experienced CVT in other cars?

[ColinBarber]

The Audi CVT is more of a traditional CVT rather than the planetary gear system that Toyota uses. I thought they were meant to be quite nice to drive but they are very unreliable, even for Audi's poor standards, so they have stopped production.

[Deadloak]

The CVT in my old Jazz was very smooth, but also very noisy if hard throttled. But to be fair it was only a city car with a small engine.

As far as reposivness, in Sport it was absolutley fine in pulling out of junctions, supprisingly.

David.

[Cracksta]

What type of auto does the is250 have? Its the best auto I've ever driven

[ColinBarber]

Just a standard Toyota A series automatic transmission made Aisin

[lordlen21]

I had the same experience in an A6. I must say that the IS300h cvt pretty responsive and that's after using the 8 speed ZF in latest 3 series.