New Venture Gear

New Venture Gear

New Venture Gear, a division of Magna Powertrain, is a automobile transmission company. It was founded in 1888 under the name "New Process Gear" then in 1934 it was purchased by Walter Chrysler. In 1999 New Process Gear was renamed "New Venture Gear" when it became a joint venture between General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation. It was 64% owned by DaimlerChrysler and 36% owned by GM until February 2002, when General Motors sold its stake in the company to DaimlerChrysler. Magna International purchased 80% of the company, under the holding company name "New Venture Gear", from DaimlerChrysler on September 29, 2004 and continues to operate it. As of 2007, Magna owns 80% of the plant.

New Venture Gear inherited Chrysler's New Process Gear Syracuse, New York plant and GM's Muncie, Indiana transmission plant. The New Process plant was renamed to the "New Process Gear Division" of New Venture Gear. Profits from New Venture built a similar operation in Roitzsch, Germany. The Muncie plant, while never profitable despite moving New Process Gears most profitable line there, was reverted to GM control. The name of this GM Plant was changed to "Manual Transmissions Of Muncie". It closed its doors in mid 2006, and was turned over to Delaware County, IN. The plant was soon demolished after the turnover to Delaware County, IN. After having previously accepted wage and benefit reductions, the union rejected two new concessions and Magna International announced its intent to close the Syracuse plant. The design services were moved and the few remaining workers will be out of a job by November 2011.


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New Venture Gear transfer cases

Nomenclature

Manufacturer Number of Speeds/Gears Strength Type
NP = New Process Gear
NV = New Venture Gear
1 = One speed (high range)
2 = Two speed (high and low range)
1 (low) to 7 (high) 1 = Part-time 4WD
2 = Full-time 4WD
3 = Electronic shift
4 = Not currently used
5 = Torsen-type differential
6 = Computer controlled multi-plate wet clutch
7 = GeroDisc
8 = Not currently used
9 = Viscous coupling
Source: Sankar K. Mohan of New Venture Gear


The company produced the NV 247 all-wheel drive transfer case, sold by Jeep as the "Quadra-Trac II". The Syracuse location was also the site which produced the original manual transaxle for the Dodge Neon and PT Cruiser (T-350), as well as manual transaxles for Chrysler minivans (T-650 & 750), most of which ended up in Europe.

New Process Gear transfer cases

Model Full-Time High High Lock Low Range 2WD Differential
119 Yes No No No Viscous
128 Yes No No Yes Open
129 Yes No No Yes Viscous
136
147 Yes No No GeroDisc
203 Yes Yes 2.01:1 No Open
205 No Yes 1.98:1 Yes
207 No Yes 2.61:1 Yes Locked
208 No Yes 2.61:1 Yes
219 Yes Yes Yes No Viscous
228 Yes No Yes Yes Open
229 Yes No Yes Yes Viscous
231 No Yes 2.72:1 Yes Locked
233 No Yes 2.72:1 Yes
236
241 No Yes 2.72:1 Yes
241OR No Yes 4.0:1 Yes Locked
242 Yes Yes 2.72:1 Yes Open
243
246
247 Yes No 2.72:1 No GeroDisc
249 Yes No 2.72:1 No Viscous
271
273

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