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Old 01-30-2018, 11:12 AM   #55
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"The clutch pedal is stiff and can be tricky to feather (nothing too bad if you've driven something with a 3 or 4-puck clutch); the shifter is extremely short, the switching between gears very notchy. It’s hard to get a feel for First gear..... I shift quickly into what I think is Third but I soon realize it's actually Fifth; that’s how tight this shifter is."

Good example of how important the small shit is if you want to live with the car. . When I read the above, I picture getting out of the car and thinking "Awesome thrill ride...so glad it is not mine".

In as much as we build hot-rods to go fast, unless it is a track-only car, the first place I want to test drive it is Toronto rush hour traffic on a hot summer day. And having driven puck clutches, I would not even bother with this car.

On a similar vein, with more than a few of the twins having been converted to alternate power trains, anyone else notice the lack of videos that show them in motion?
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