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My Current car does this when the the petrol engine kicks in (Hybrid with CVT), it does a tiny bit of "gear simulation" with the engine if you floor it and it uses the petrol engine together with the electric one and it adds a bit more of fake engine sound though the speakers to make it more obvious.

Strange thing is they chose to only have "three gears", no matter at what speed you do it the max is two shifts.

Not that it matters a lot, the shift in revs is not too much and if it gets petrol loving people into hybrid vehicles I'm OK with that.



Nissan does this with their CVTs as well. Apparently they found that people didn't really like the "all one gear" feel, so they programmed in "gear changes" where the CVT changes ratio like an automatic. You still get the CVT advantage when going up a hill or stomping on the accelerator, though.

They've been phasing out their CVTs in favor of traditional automatics, though.


Automatics now routinely have 7 or more gears. That's essentially a CVT for all practical purposes.


My automatic (non DCT) car has 8 gears and I usually don’t even feel the shifts after 3rd gear at all.


They’re phasing them out because they’re total junk. The Jatco CVT is so unreliable it’s been known to die at 30k miles and has cost Nissan a fortune in lawsuits and recalls.


I've heard this, but have yet to experience it.




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