Ford is considering giving the B&B's least favorite transmission type another go for future applications.
Automotive News reports global product development boss Raj Nair said as much during a media event in Detroit. Though Ford hasn't had much success with CVTs in the past — the last models to use the transmission were the Five Hundred, Freestyle and Mercury Montego back in 2007 — the automaker is "taking another look, particularly in low torque applications" such as the Fiesta SFE, whose 1-liter EcoBoost is only available with a manual transmission.
As for where Ford will get its new CVTs, Nair didn't say if the transmission type would be made in-house or obtained from a supplier, as was the case with ZF Friedrichshafen AG in 2007.
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