I'm just gonna leave this right here.



EXTROID CVT For Application to Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Powered by Large Engines

Interesting that I keep seeing this pop up on random car site in articles and videos that treat it like a new innovation.

This transmission is NOT new, and not used in the US (or ever coming here, to my knowledge.

The Extroid was NIisan's FIRST CVT.
It was available in the Y34 Gloria (which was sold with a V8 and 5AT in the US as the M45) in 1999.

Extroid is pretty common in RWD Nissans in Japan. I'm not sure why it never made it here, but I'm a little ambivalent about the fact that it didn't. On the one hand, it's much more durable, lower-maintenance, and offers better power delivery at extreme ratios. On the other hand, if it had come here we'd have even more CVT turdboxes driving around, and I'm sure the genius executives at NisRenInfShitsu would have tried cramming it into trucks, too. I bet Carlos Ghosn's wife wanted a convertible CVT Frontier pretty bad.

Press release, 1999:
https://newsroom.nissan-global.com/rele ... the-gloria

Thanks for the info, I had no idea.

MinisterofDOOM wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:38 pm

The Extroid was NIisan's FIRST CVT.
It was available in the Y34 Gloria (which was sold with a V8 and 5AT in the US as the M45) in 1999.

I found out about this years ago when i randomly stumbled on an old Japanese y33 commercial with Richard Branson, the two things i learned that day where that the Y33 actually had a cvt and that the Evo 7 had an automatic version called the GT-A.

I heard about it back a few years ago as well, but also noticed it's just started popping back up again. Maybe they're preparing us for a CVT backed Z34....

lol I can't get past EXTROID. Sounds like an ugly zit you'd get on your a** that keeps coming back. You're partying on the beach with your friends but you gotta wear jeans.

Saying that out loud, it's kind of like the CVT and Nissan as a whole juxtaposed against real transmissions. Oddly fitting.