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Old 06-14-2012, 07:29 PM   #45
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I remember I read an interview with one VW executive about same car applying to different markets. He mentioned that they need to make clutch light in India because people don't like to wear shoes. While this is not the case in Germany.

I haven't driven a MT FR-S, so I can't judge. But I once drove a volvo C30 with very light clutch, and I didn't like that. Your descriptions remind me of that feeling.

As for the BMWs and other high performance cars, I wonder if they intentionally make the clutch heavy or it simply a mechanical character of the clutch which needs to handle more torque and needs more pressure, perhaps?
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