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Originally Posted by elvo
Oy! No making fun of the Trabi please. It's the only car that's as fast in reverse as it is in forward gear. They used to race these on an oval ... .. .backwards! 
Besides, I believe Audi revived the vari-push-belt technology and use it on their excellent line of automatic gearboxes.... |
That was the DAF with the belt gearbox. You just changed the size of the pulleys to change gear with a sliding lever. Intensely cool to be able to do 100kmh in reverse (theoretically
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Trabbis were just nasty two-strokes without a fuel gauge. You have to measure how much petrol you still have with a stick...
Here's how the DAF box worked
What a suave car for the discerning gentleman
Sorry, just noticed this was violently off-topic but I was half-asleep when I read DAF somewhere
