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All but 2 of my 8 cars have been stick. The first auto was bought for me by my parents as a gift, as was the second one. All 6 cars thereafter were all manual, all bought by myself. I refuse to drive an auto unless I go luxury car down the road. But for the time being, its manual transmission or nothing else.
A bit off topic but could you please explain that? A Shelby 454?
Carroll Shelby was a race car driver, car designer and specialty car builder. He consulted with car companies to produce factory performance cars, and also built a limited number in his own plant. All Shelby means is that it was something he built or had a hand in designing. The Shelby built Cobra put him on the map. Shelby also designed cars for Ford and Dodge.
Carroll Shelby was a race car driver, car designer and specialty car builder. He consulted with car companies to produce factory performance cars, and also built a limited number in his own plant. All Shelby means is that it was something he built or had a hand in designing. The Shelby built Cobra put him on the map. Shelby also designed cars for Ford and Dodge.
A LOT of road and track racecar series are sequentials (like a motorcycle engine), no need to use a clutch except from a standing start, or to prevent stalling. They majority of professional series don't use a traditional H-gate or Dogleg (not sure about NASCAR, but as far as racing series go that's a pretty victorian series pushrod engines and 2 valves per cylinder?)
The advantages of sequentials are too many, no clutch changes, so the clutch can be smaller with heavier springs that makes it lighter, the transmission itself has no synchro's so it's lower mass and lower rotating mass too. Even if the series has a minimum weight restriction, having lighter parts means you add ballast, but you can put the ballast where you want to improve the performance and handling of the vehicle
So while they're a manual, they're not what people think of as a "manual", you can't jump 1st to 3rd, or 2nd to 4th, and why would you want to anyway if you're racing, if you're doing that your ratio's are all messed up and you should have your engineer change the ratio's.
I had a Volkswagen Cabrio with a manual and I really loved it. It is not very much fun to drive if you are often stuck in traffic, however.
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