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Which is where CVTs excel. Maybe I'm old school, but if you have something too powerful for a CVT belt to handle, fuel efficiency is not your top priority. Maybe I sound like an old fart going "nobody needs FIVE gears when three is plenty!" but imo the only vehicles that have any business having 10 or more ratios are the ones that regularly pull a few dozen tons of cargo. We should have stopped at six. More than that and a CVT is what you need.
I have a 26 year old car with a 5 speed manual. I can't say I'm sure any of these new 10 speed auto cars will still be running in a quarter century with a quarter million miles on the clock.