The future is CVT, at least in Nissan’s eyes. Nissan is ramping up CVT installations up to almost 40% of total vehicles sold, which are about 400,000 vehicles a year in North America alone.
Nissan’s CVT gearbox is called Xtronic CVT. The 2007 Nissan Versa small sedan and hatch will feature this as an option. CVT is a stepless gearbox system which allows infinitely variable gear ratios because it uses variable belts instead of fixed gears for transmission.
Nissan’s Xtronic CVT-M6 is available here in Malaysia in the Nissan Murano. It has a manual 6-speed mode.
Another unique feature of the Xtronic CVT is the elimination of the ‘rubber-band’ feeling with other CVT transmissions. This rubber band feeling is when you press the accelerator from a stop. The RPM goes up kind of high before settling down again, just like a clutch that’s being released slowly. Nissan’s Xtronic CVT has some logic control that prevents this.
Ironically Nissan’s shift_ future doesn’t require any shifts at all! 
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
Good design!! Hope to get one soon!
The last sentence was almost as good as Gmail's Wifi=GSpot.
Perhaps it can be called….. GShift
the advance of technology has improve the driving experience tremendously…shift_the_future is indeed true!
CVT is the way to go~
i guess all cars are veering toward cvt tech after all…whether or not toyta follow suit is js a matter of time unless they built a higher tech/alternative. the honda city alrready came with CVT, the tomor tech ( i know its been around awhile but only now cars are widely adopted) at todays price….somemore luxurious interior…if not city privce is for better valued, i dono wht is then…
Naruto : Avid Honda fan?
Don't flame me yet , I like Honda too. And basically every maker which I feel they make their cars correctly.
MIT Lancer has CVT too….