Abstract: Continuously variable transmission (1) for motor vehicles, provided with a primary pulley (2) and a secondary pulley (3), around which there is arranged a drive belt (10), which is clamped between two conical pulley disks of the primary pulley (2) with a primary claming force and between two conical pulley disks of the secondary pulley (3) with a secondary clamping force, wherein, as a result of a contact angle of at least one of the pulley disks of the respective pulleys (2; 3) with the drive belt (10) being adapted, and at least in the largest transmission ratio of the transmission (1), i.e. Low, a clamping force ratio between the primary clamping force and the secondary clamping force has a value in the range between 1 and the clamping force ratio in the smallest transmission ratio, i.e. Overdrive.