Thanks for the informative pics and dialogue. It understand how CVT's work and thier concepts. I guess i just didn't quite conve(sp?) what i was thinking.

By the word belt i meant the design we all are familiar with, you know the rubber kind. The "belts" used in CVT's are in fact more akin to chains. by that i mean metal/steel construction linking together and providing momentum for the vehicle. I guess its i little dificult to pic up on the sarcasm(in a good way) with my dry sense of humor.

Maybe for simplicity sake its marketed as belt driven, but i just haven't made the contection with the word belt in the sense we all know it. It happens to act and have the properties of a chain in my mind. Since you brought up Audi maybe you have a photo on file of what i saw all spread out in the service bay at Crown. I can't remember what car it was out of. I'll see if i can locate what i'm talking about.