Alright fellas, I need a little help in the automotive department. I‘m interested in purchasing a Nissan Cube when they come out in May, but I‘m not certain what the difference is between a manual transmission and a continuously variable transmission. Can someone give me a somewhat basic explanation of the difference? Is a C.V.T. less complicated than learning how to drive manually? Thanks!
Here's the trick that theives use on 'clubs'. They bring a long a small 'bolt cutter' and cut the steering wheel (not the club). This takes about 2 seconds to do. Alarms and other devices are there to keep the honest people honest. Car alarm are an effective deterent because a thief does not want ANY notice given to his activities. Even though most everyone ignores car alarms, we all still look at the car that's making the noise and that is enough to deter the thief. On both of my vehicles ('05 Ford Explorer Sport Trac and 07 Hummer H3) require that a specific key be used to start it. This is the MOST effective method of theft prevention. However, if a theif wants a specific vehicle bad enough, they will get it. Hope this answers the question!
there's no security device ever conceived that a good thief can't circumvent your best bet is to just buy really good insurance in case it ever happens although clubs and alarms do deter the teenage joy riders pretty good the best security alarms work with an agency that can shut down your car from just about anywhere look into these systems if you want to pay for that kind of service
Either way if a thief wants it he'll get it, but it wouldnt hurt to have both that way at least the alarm is screaming while their trying to cut the club off.
As far as you are concerned, the CVT is just like an automatic transmission. It's actually better for some complicated reasons that you don't really care about. Technically it has no gears so it never shifts. For this reason it can always be at the perfect gear ratio. If you are interested in getting the best fuel economy out of your car, get the CVT. You don't need to learn to drive it. Just put it in drive and off you go. * CVT means Continuously Variable Transmission.
A CVT drives like an automatic. Its chief advantage over other types of trannies is that there are no steps from one gear ratio to the next - gears. It can sweep continuously from its lowest ratio, what would be first gear in a regular transmission, to its highest ratio with no pauses. This allows the engineers to program the tranny and engine to work together to keep the engine in its most efficient range, or most powerful depending on how the software is set up. Chances are good that you'll be able to select a setting that will make the tranny eke out every mile per gallon, or another setting that will hustle it along with some verve. Some CVTs have been sold that would emulate an automatic, jumping to preselected ratios, holding that as the engine revved, then jumping to another ratio. That's silly but there it is. One complaint I hear about CVT vehicles is that sometimes they have a peculiar disconnected sort of feel, where the engine doesn't seem to be connected to the wheels. As the loading changes on the tranny, the engine's rev rate will climb up and down while your speed holds steady. CVTs are more complex than manuals and so far as I've heard, not as efficient at getting the power from the engine to the wheels. But they're more efficient than conventional automatics, so they're splitting the difference. CVTs have been in production for about fifteen years now and while there are the occasional complaints like I've just described, aside from that they seem to be perfectly acceptable as a transmission choice in your next vehicle.
