Six Star Magazine Six Star Magazine Winter 2009/2010 Outback | Page 9

TECHNOLOGY LINEARTRONIC™ CVT: THE ALL-NEW CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION Want better acceleration, smoother performance and dramatically improved fuel economy? Get ready for Subaru’s newest innovation: A transmission without traditional gears. Subaru’s all-new Lineartronic™ CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) is the ideal link between the smooth power of the SUBARU BOXER engine and the confident control of Subaru symmetrical full-time All-Wheel Drive. Thanks to this innovative new transmission, your Subaru can now achieve even better acceleration, smoother performance and improved fuel economy. Perhaps the biggest plus of this innovation is, in fact, the improved fuel economy. Thanks to Subaru’s CVT – designed to comply with future environmental regulations – it’s now possible to enjoy the performance of all-wheel-drive with the fuel economy experienced with front-wheel-drive vehicles! (Legacy 2.5i with Lineartronic CVT achieves 9.2/6.5 L/100 km City/Hwy.) Even more surprisingly, both the 2010 Legacy and Outback with Lineartronic CVT can achieve over 1,000 km† per tank during highway driving! †It Although CVT transmissions are not new to the industry, Subaru engineers felt it was important to take their time perfecting the Lineartronic CVT and not just rush new technology to market. As a result of this fastidious approach, Subaru engineers were able to develop a production-car first – a CVT longitudinally paired with AWD that uses a chain instead of a belt. This advancement represents a vast improvement over other manufacturers’ designs. Thanks to this innovation, Subaru’s Lineartronic CVT uses smaller pulleys making it lighter and more efficient overall. By allowing for a near infinite selection of gear ratios, this transmission keeps the engine in the most favourable rpm range at all times. Subaru’s unique design also boasts a more natural feel as compared to others, allowing you to experience instant and smooth response as your foot grazes the gas pedal. A SHIFT AWAY FROM GEARS No matter how skillful the manual driver or how well-designed the automatic transmission, acceleration is never perfectly linear. There’s always some degree of shift delay. In fact, accelerating from zero to peak speed is actually a series of accelerations with pauses in between. As the engine has to work harder before a gear change, each shift point slows the overall acceleration and consumes fuel. The benefit of Subaru’s Lineartronic™ CVT is that it eliminates shift delay by allowing acceleration and deceleration to become perfectly linear for smooth power delivery, lower emissions and better fuel efficiency. is possible to travel up to 1,077 km on one tank of fuel based on estimated fuel consumption figure rating posted by Natural Resources Canada of 6.5L/100 km (highway) for a 2010 Subaru Legacy equipped with continuously variable automatic transmission and a 70L fuel tank capacity. It is possible to travel up to 1,014 km on one tank of fuel based on estimated fuel consumption figure rating posted by Natural Resources Canada of 6.9L/100 km (highway) for a 2010 Subaru Outback equipped with continuously variable automatic transmission and a 70L fuel tank capacity. Actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving conditions, driver habits and vehicle load. |9