There's a simpler, better way to do it

Kinja'd!!! by "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
Published 04/24/2017 at 11:45

Tags: Manual Transmission ; Gearbox ; Gearboxes ; Dual-clutch Gearbox ; Rally shifter ; Sequential transmission
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See, Car and Driver is proposing this kind of manualized automatic . I think it’s gonna work, but really it needs with tower shifters like on rally cars, as well as its column-mounted brother.


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Kinja'd!!! "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/24/2017 at 11:59, STARS: 0

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Derp.

Kinja'd!!! "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
04/24/2017 at 12:28, STARS: 2

Cotal!

A thing rarely seen.

A thing little known: Ford France offered the Cotal on the 1950s Vedette.

Oh, and another take on the non-automatic automatic:

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Kinja'd!!! "Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
04/24/2017 at 12:36, STARS: 2

Speaking from experience, you definitely do not want that in your daily.

Kinja'd!!! "Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
04/24/2017 at 13:11, STARS: 0

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{Really though, I do know that such a shifter is impractical. Then again, all I know is pain}

Kinja'd!!! "tromoly" (tromoly)
04/24/2017 at 15:45, STARS: 0

Or people could, you know, acknowledge that a well-sorted automatic is better in every way than a manually shifted one, including fuel economy, power delivery, speed of shits, shift points, etc.