I think this is how the Japanese feel about our Corvette... They'd love it if we sold the craziest ZO6 model over there

 

WTF, now it looks like Krinkov's vette!

 

Yes Yes Yes and Yes

 

skeet skeet skeet...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-Shift_Gearbox

does it have a torque converter??

 

That's what happens when Krinkov is art directing!

 

It does not have a clutch pedal, and has an automatic mode which is enough to discount it for me personally.

I am sure that it is technically "better" but I personally prefer to select my gears using a lever in a standard H pattern, and I like to control engagement of the transmission via a pedal to the left of the brake pedal.

DSG's aside from taking away one major point of enjoyment in a car for me, are insanely complicated as well. There's just no interest, and it is essentially a different way to go about an automatic transmission that you can choose the shift points of if you so desire.

 

I don't quite understand the lol smiley. It is still an automatic transmission regardless of the torque converter or dual clutch mechanism.

From your wiki link: "Once the driver has selected D for drive..." <-- Where's the fun in that?

While it is a neat piece of engineering, I wouldn't want it in anything referred to as a sports car. A fancy vagina mod is still a vagina mod.

 

You said that in a much cooler way than I did. Huzzah!

 

It may shift automatically, but it is by no means a standard automatic (traditional torque converting slushbox). The only real difference between this and a manual is that this doesn't have a clutch pedal or the control of having a true manual. You can still shift this transmission and have it hold the gear just like a manual and unlike a traditional automatic tranny. With the traditional autos, even if you have the gear selector in 2nd to hold it in that gear, when cornering hard or even hitting a bump hard enough it will shift out of the gear you have it set to... Also, this tranny shifts waaaaaay faster than a regular auto and doesn't lose as much drivetrain power like a traditional auto does.

So yeah, technically it is an "automatic" in terms of shifting automatically, but it is NOT anywhere near ANYTHING that a standard automatic tranny is by any shape, function, or form. This sequential gearbox is like 50x better than a standard auto tranny, and better than a regular manual in some ways, yet it will never be as "true" as a real manual... :-/

 

id take a clutch over saving .1 seconds between shifts...unless im racing for money or on a team, i could give a crap about saving fractions of a nats *** between shifts.

Like Wombatsauce said...until i lose my left leg haha

 

Yeah, I really liked the DSGs Ive played around with so far but not really sure Im ready to fully commit. After living in the city for nearly 2 years Ive never ONCE wished I had an auto, even in the worst city traffic. And unless Im entering some kind of time attack I cant imagine why I'd need that fast of shifts out of my street car

 

There are major differences between a DSG and a manual - to the point that the only similarity is that power goes in one end and comes out the other at varying, user-selectable pre-defined intervals. It is also fully automatic and designed as such with the ability to control it manually which should also read: the ability to slow it down and take away the only real benefit (lightning quick shifts). There's no way you can shift/decide faster than the DSG so why shift it manually?

Because it's fun... So in that case, I will take the proven, simple and reliable design of a standard synchro-mesh manual gearbox w/ a standard manually actuated clutch. And not just because I don't want to trade an age-old proven design for an electronically controlled complex device w/ TWO non-user servicable wet multi-plate clutches.

The original Ferrari systems with the paddles were electro-hydraulically actuated manual transmissions. I still don't like this because... I cannot manually control it's actuation. Hard to explain.

I dunno - just like I have no clue why someone would want a collection of assault rifles - you don't understand why I gotta have a clutch pedal...

 

Ah sick, my photoshop job got beat . . . . Those wheels look awesome, I know, I know it's an cleaned-up airbrushed cover.

 

Some more great shots courtesy of a friend of mine:

http://web.mac.com/felonious.monk/iW...OW/NISSAN.html