They’re good for go karts and for auto manufacturers that want their product to be worthless about time you pay it off.

Subaru
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2023/MC-10231303-0001.pdf

Honda
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2023/MC-10236086-0001.pdf

GM
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10213745-9999.pdf

Mitsubishi
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10252683-0001.pdf

Chrysler uses the Nissan trans and they are king of the shit heap.

The Prius system is a modern marvel and deserves a better name than eCVT.

Belt type CVTs are trash. I don’t care that your Subaru has 57,000 trouble free miles, it’s going to die.

cvts are reliable

Now THAT’S a statement made by the utterly deranged