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Old 04-30-2017, 10:47 AM   #32
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I think he just means his family assumes being able to select specific gears with an automatic means the car has a CVT. Probably because of the marketing hype around CVTs in the past, and paddle shifters were mentioned in those ads.

Basically vroom vroom commercials for fancy cars made some people equate paddle shifters with CVT.

Most people with automatics are just used to R, P, N, and D lol.
I understood that part of it. Most of the marketing I remember were all about it not having "shift shock" or gears. I was kind of suggesting, in my own way, for someone to educate themselves on what will likely be the most prevalent technology in a few years. Cvt does not equal paddle shifters. Thats all I was getting at.
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