What ended DAF’s stateside experiment? Curiously enough, it was the lack of a park setting. “The government didn’t like the Variomatic transmission,” de Bruin says.” The older cars have ...

This “Variomatic” system made Daf the first small car with a standard equipment fully automatic transmission. With no gears to shift there was no clutch pedal. Engine power went through the ...

"It's a bunch of planetary gear ... to drive a car without a clutch pedal and saw useage in a number of cars from Volskwagen, Fiat, Lancia, and others. Do you hate CVTs? Blame the DAF Variomatic ...

but it was the introduction of the Variomatic gearbox by Dutch car maker DAF in the 1950s that saw CVT become more commonplace in cars. DAF's Variomatic set the template for CVT boxes, and all ...

Continuously variable transmissions seem like a relatively recent technology, but the roots of most CVTs on the market today originate from a small Dutch automaker that first put this transmission ...

had been tinkering with this technology since the 1959 DAF 600 - the first car with a continuously variable transmission. The idea for the Variomatic transmission came from the company co-founder ...

The DAF Variomatic is a tiny family car produced by DAF between 1959 and ... to come with a CVT (continuous variable transmission) system. Since it was the first time either of the Formula 1 ...