You’ve probably been there before: sink your foot into the floor and the car, usually a fuel-sipping SUV like a Toyota RAV4, feels like it is fighting for its dying breath. That’s probably the work of a CVT – or continuously variable transmission – speeding up the engine to an RPM it thinks is optimal for the given occasion. We’ve looked into the best SUVs without a CVT transmission in this article, so you know which ones to go for if you’re a CVT critic.
