Jeep Patriot Freedom Drive II™ Acceleration

[@kramer3214]

to lose a lot of the problems with the CVT, you can use the Autostick feature. your CVT will emulate 6 gears to make it accelerate just like a conventional transmission.

[@RT360ci]

CVT's are only efficient in the sense that they have less moving parts and are made to be more liable over a conventional automatic. However, CVT has the same parasitic losses a reg autobox has. The only thing efficient about it, is the fact it can cruise at a slightly lower rpm at any given speed when your foot isn't down to the floor. The 5 speed is a much better unit in this vehicle. If you look at the EPA mileage results, the manual 4x4 gets 3-5mpg better over the CVT.

[@L4TIn0St4NdUp]

@SaGalv cvt is not found in race cars its found in fuel efficient cars and its reving a 6000 which is low it wont damage the engine because its electronics limits it

[@RT360ci]

Trail rated engine for north america is the 2.4L 'world engine'. I wish ChyCo would make a 5 speed that could handle the low range gearing!

[@mtb416]

Theoretically speaking a combustion motor is most efficient when running at near 100% CVT's are great for economy. The Patriot has some of the best fuel mileage in its class.

[@azmendozafamily]

not to sound dumb, but what is WOT? Personally I think it's kinda neat to see 15th Century Tech brought into the 21st. I'm guessing that it'd be like flying a plane where you have no gears, just throttle. maybe oversimplified, but it make some sense in my mind.

[@SaGalv]

yeh, from about 30 till whenever u let off, say you wanna go up a hill faster, and u need to have it floored or almost floored. it would be redlining the whole time.

[@jastej0grewal]

the trail rated version is slower because of the gearing. the 2wd and regular 4wd systems are much faster.

[@rudolphna54]

It only holds it at redline during WOT acceleration.

[@SaGalv]

so it just holds it at redline? wont that damage the motor after a while? glad my mom bought the 5 spd one, cuase the cvt seems like garbage,

[@sergsrt8]

why is your other 0-60 vid faster, this is much slower

[@ionengine]

@c500amg Guess c500 does not realize this was a video of a "petrol" gas engine...

[@sergsrt8]

@Zpinua oh, lol my bad

[@keithryan1025]

@sirbuick i felt this way at first man till i got one i am in love with cvt real sluggish off the line but at a 20 roll it moves

[@dart060987com]

what engen is that?

[@josh1303]

So what is your 0-60 time?

[@englshmn]

My patriot has a shiftable CVT so you can make it into a semi-manual.. My patriot actually seems a lot faster than this one.. lol

[@SaGalv]

i suppose so, still seems wierd though. i honestly couldnt stand a car that doesnt shift, even in automatics though i much perfer a manual i still rather have gears...

[@bigbufobufo]

wow. that is slow.

[@ambientflier]

Patriot Freedom Drive...LOL. They should come with an american flag already painted in the rear window. Silly.