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Originally Posted by ff
For someone that insists on rowing their own gears, it's not going to be a fun experience. But these transmissions have gotten better in recent years, such that I wouldn't any longer accept a blanket, unqualified "they're awful" statement.
I haven't driven a Nissan with a CVT, but the Honda units aren't bad at all. I have extensive experience with the Accord CVT (owned previous to the Pilot), and it was surprisingly good. I'd take that over a regular geared slushie any day. Seriously. It's a different experience, but it's not worse.
I do have concerns about longevity and durability of CVTs, but only because I'm not informed enough about the inner-workings to know if it's a weak point in the drivetrain.
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I've driven a recent Nissan CVT. It managed to combine all of the annoyances of a CVT with all of the annoyances of an automatic - including FAKE GEARS. Yes, that right. Fake gears. Because people complained about the monotonous buzzing of a CVT, they decided to try to give it pretend gears so that it felt more like a traditional automatic.