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INNOVATIONS OR 1st SALES DATES
| 1545 | 1827 | ||
| Universal joint
Gerolamo Cardano (engineer) |
Differential Onésiphore Pecqueur (engineer) |
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| 1899 | |||
| 3-speed Manual gearbox with direct drive Louis Renault document The manual transmission |
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| 1899 | 1900 | ||
| Drive shaft Louis Renault |
Automatic gearbox
Louis Bonneville (engineer) |
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| 1908 | 1910 | 1919 | 1926 |
| Hydraulic torque converter Föttinger (engineer) |
Constant velocity joint
Jean Fenaille and Jean Grégoire (engineers) |
4-speed manual gearbox
Audi document The manual transmission |
Front wheel drive with twin joint Citroën (Traction avant A7) |
| 1928 | 1934 | 1934 | 1935 |
| Wilson preselector 4-speed planetary transmission Wilson (Armstrong-Siddeley, Talbot, Daimler) |
Cotal half-automatic electromagnetic 4-speed planetary transmission (Delage, Delahaye) |
Overdrive Chrysler |
5 speed manual gearbox
German cars for motorway driving document The manual transmission |
| 1939 | 1939 | 1948 | 1951 |
| Double clutch gearbox Adolphe Kégresse Document Double clutch transmissions |
4-speed planetary automatic transmission with hydrodynamic coupling GM Hydramatic |
Planetary automatic transmission with hydrodynamic torque converter Buick Dynaflow |
Manual transmission with conic section ring synchronmesh (Porsche type) Porsche |
| 1957 | 1958 | ||
| Automatic clutch on manual gearbox Saxomat system |
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Buick Flight Pitch Dynaflow triple turbine torque converter and planetary gears continuously variable transmission Buick |
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| 1968 | 1968 | ||
| Continiously Variable Transmission (CVT) DAF (Alexandre Horowitz) Document Continuously Variable Transmissions< |
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Transverse manual transmission Autobianchi (Primula) document The manual transmission |
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| 1985 | |||
| Dual-mass flywheel BMW/LuK |
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| 1995 | |||
| Electronically controlled clutch for manual gearboxes Saab Sensonic/Sachs |
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| 1996 | 1996 | ||
| Self-adjusting clutch Japonese all-road / LuK |
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Automated manual transmission (AMT) BMW SMG |
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| 1997 | |||
| Torque vectoring Honda ATTS (Prelud VTi-R) |
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| 1998 | 2000 | ||
| Haldex electronically controlled differential Volkswagen ( Golf 4 4Motion) |
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Half-toroidal CVT Nissan Extroid Jacto (Nissan Cedric and Gloria) |
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| 2000 | 2001 | ||
| CVT transmission with a chain LuK (Audi A6 Multitronic) |
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6-Speed automatic transmission with Lepelletier gear set ZF (BMW 7 Serie) |
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| 2002 | 2002 | ||
| 6-speed double clutch transmissions Volkswagen/BorgWarner (Audi TT 3.2 V6) Seen in race on Porsche 959 (PSK system) |
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Ceramic clutch disk Sachs (Porsche Carrera GT) |
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| 2003 | |||
| 7-speed automatic transmission Mercedes (7G-TRONIC) |
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| 2005 | |||
| 7-speed double clutch transmissions Ricardo (Bugatti Veyron 16.4) |
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| 2006 | 2008 | ||
| 8-speed automatic transmission Aisin AW (Lexus LS460) |
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Dry double clutch transmissions Volkswagen/BorgWarner (VW Golf) |
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| Between 2008 and 2010 | |||
| Clutch assistance LuK (CSA system) |
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