You seriously think CVTs are good? Do you even know what they look like or how they work? Or did you read some fancy bull **** and think they are amazing?
It's a belt spinning on 2 pulleys that change size.
The theroy is CVTs can only handle 250 hp and 250 ftlbs of torque.
And the 90 hp civic can make the belt slip if you don't change the oil at 30,000 miles exactly. Besides the horrible chatter pulling away from stop signs. Oh, and 3,000 rpms to make it up a hill at 50mph.....
I had a 50cc four wheeler with a CVT. Belt slipped on it to, of course so did the centrifugal clutch. Oh yeah, love the CVT in the lawn mower. Push the pedal and the transmission makes more noise than the engine
The CVT in my Grandpa's Polaris isn't to bad. Doesn't slip or do anything extremely weird. Couldn't hardly spin the back tires though, it'd just go. Had to rev it way to high to make the pulleys start moving, the motor wasn't made to rev that high. Spinning 5 grand to accelerate at a decent pace... in a 800cc v twin ATV. Of course most people rev the piss outta their ATVs
When CVTs hit performance cars, then I'll care. But your piddly poo Toyota Camry is a no better example than anything else I said. Besides, you can claim what great success your Toyota had with it's CVT. But I experienced the horrors of the CVT in the civic hybrid.
By the time someone figures out how to make a CVT work good in a performance application, we'll be using big brushless motors attached to each wheel with Lithum Polymer batterys, solar panels, and thermal whatchaya ma call its to recharge the battery.
To get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuously_variable_transmission