(2016y) SUBARU Levorg 2.0GT-S (VMG) Japan specification. 2.0L horizontally opposed 4cylinder turbo power 296hp(221kW) / 5600rpm torque 400Nm / 2000~4800rpm weight 1560kg CVT 4WD Subscribe to my channel. Don’t forget to like the video.
That CVT is a performance killer, I don't understand why Subaru went with it. They had the 5 speed auto from Legacy GT 2010-2014, why not add another set of gears and make it 7-8 speed and have a proper gearbox is beyond me
@@petkokrushev3840 CVT can be optimized for what you want, confort, acceleration, consumption ... It loses no time shifting and can have the engine in the maximum power or torque range all the time. In fact this kind of gearbox has been tested and banned in F1 and has been the fastest one up to today
@@petkokrushev3840 As I said, it can e optimized for what you want, road cars with CVTs are rarely optimized for performance, but rather for smoothness. Good CVTs are hard to manufacture, same as DCTs, that's why some gearbox manufacturers only speciallize in one of them. The reason that most performance cars are not using them is because people like the sensation of gears and abrupt changes of acceleration, as it makes the car seem more powerfull, and it's what people is used to and expect. That's why modern CVTs simulate gears. If you check the latest CVT used by Subaru in the new WRX, the fake step gears have abrupt stops that are really close to what a DCT does
The CVT functionally acts as extra turbo lag. Notice the way the car does nothing until the revs rise. That takes a full second! OUCH. If my WRX-based M20b behaved like that, I never would have purchased it.
