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8-sided folding brochure of the very first 'Dafje' Wikipedia: After Hub van Doorne invented the Variomatic (nickname: The Smart Pookje), it was decided in 1953 to also build passenger cars, in order to actually be able to use the Variomatic. According to the Van Doornes it had to be a small car. Engineer Van Brugghen was given the technical leadership of the project. In February 1958, DAF showed the world a fully-fledged, beautiful 4 to 5 seater car with automatic transmission, the famous Variomatic, and with a self-developed 2-cylinder 4-stroke engine. The Variomatic was a continuously variable transmission with two rubber belts that continuously realizes new transmission ratios between two discs. It was the first continuously variable automotive transmission ever to go into production. The DAF 600 (1959) was the first car. At the presentation at the AutoRAI, the car was not yet fully ready for production, but 4000 orders have already been placed.
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