Quote Originally Posted by Dr.Kamiya View Post
After reading the press releases, I think both implementations make sense, just a matter of whether the car is being tuned for low or high speed efficiency.

Either side is where you have a big differential in pulleys: big input to small output in "low gear" mode, or small input to big output in "high gear" mode meaning a lot of torque division or multiplication which can cause the CVT to slip more.

So the corolla implementation is optimized for stop and go traffic, the wigo version is for highway cruising.

I suppose a more ideal implementation optimized for both scenarios will have a two-speed transmission with the missing in-between gears filled in by the CVT.
interesting.
i guess i'll have to think what type of driving i'll be doing...