My reading of the problem is that the fault lies in the torque converter, not the CVT part.
I cannot understand why there is such a prejudice against CVT transmissions.
You can place a fair sized blame at the door of motoring press here. They seem to really have it in for the CVT, despite evidence to suggest that none of the hacks have driven a CVT for some years. That being their going on about 'mooing' noises. This is something i could well imagine being the case with older CVT's like my Dads Daf 55, with their infinite gearing, but the 'stepped' type, like what is in our Jazz?, not in my experience. Yes, it like to rev if you want to accelerate, but that has nowt to do with it being a CVT and everything to do with it being a n/a rev happy, torque light, 1.3. In Honest John's review for the Yaris, which has the same type of transmission as the Jazz, he state's it to be one of the best automatics, CVT or otherwise, available in a small car.
Early CVT’s were pretty awful things. I remember being horrified by my first shot of a Volvo 340 CVT ditto the jerky and noisy Fiat UNO, Ford Fiesta and Escort CVT’s in the 80’s and 90’s. The conventional Mitsubishi autos we were selling were vastly superior in every way except initial performance and certainly economy.
I was too young to have driven my Dad's Daf 55 (and don't actually remember much about what it was like to travel in either), but when i spoke to him about the Daf not too long ago, he remembers it being a great little thing to drive. Very smooth, comfortable and refined (compared to other similar sized cars of the time (circa 1975). He found the front seats so comfy, when the Daf died, he removed them and fitted them to his next two cars, a MK2 Escort estate and a Hilman Hunter. It also had exceptional traction, having seperate drive to each rear wheel!.
Edited by badbusdriver on 16/03/2019 at 13:35
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