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Originally Posted by HKz
ok? We get you don't care about MTs, so why bother posting? Tired of reading folks clinging onto ancient technology?
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Fanaticisim, I guess ... so annoying. Otherwise, I have no problem with people who like MT. Drive whatever you want. But don't tell me that MT is the only way to enjoy driving. Actually, just the opposite is true for modern high-performance sports cars.
“The only people who ask for manual gearboxes are two or three diehard British car journalists,” said Nicola Boari, the head of product marketing at Ferrari. Ferrari stopped selling sticks in 2011.
“We develop our cars to have class-leading levels of performance, grip, and handling,” Boari said. “For the technological level of integration our cars offer, a manual gearbox would reduce the performance capabilities—which, for Ferrari, is unacceptable.”
“These days, people are educated to the fact that it’s faster to drive with paddle shifters or the DSG gearbox, especially people who have been buying sports cars for a long time,” said John Paolo Canton, spokesman for McLaren in North America.
Read the rest, if you care,
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