[drakkie]

to reply partly off-topic:

The gains of the CVT in the DAF f3 (or was it an f2 car ?) car were around and about 34-36 percent.On certain tracks even as high as 45-50% !!! No shifting time meant a huge advantage. DAF was planning more racing and sports activities to approve their image (especially in holland) before the passenger vehicle part of the company went bust and these racing activities were also cancelled. The CVT was used in the f3/f2 cars cos of the low amount of power. at the time a max. of 250 hp was there There are cvt's used in (experimental) trucks which have power up to 1000-1500 hp