New Car for Rob Maybe??????

[FTVfanatic]

Originally Posted by Max

The gear box is abysmal, and it doesn't even offer a fully manual transmission, which is a necessity when buying a sports car in my opinion. Those semi-automatics seem to be just fake to me, and not a real car. It seems like a car that the only thing about it that is important is top speed, not my car at all.

Obviously, You have no clue what you are talking about. The seven-gear double-clutch gearbox of the Veyron is leeps ahead of all its competitors. And the whole car is so not about just top speed. As the designers said it: "The idea was to design a sportscar which would explore the limits of the technically possible and which would, in every respect, be committed to the extreme... to unite the passion of the designer, the skill of the engineer, absolute luxury and racing technology."

Please, don't put the word Honda in the same sentence with "Bugatti Veyron".

[Max]

Originally Posted by FTVfanatic

Obviously, You have no clue what you are talking about. The seven-gear double-clutch gearbox of the Veyron is leeps ahead of all its competitors. And the whole car is so not about just top speed. As the designers said it: "The idea was to design a sportscar which would explore the limits of the technically possible and which would, in every respect, be committed to the extreme... to unite the passion of the designer, the skill of the engineer, absolute luxury and racing technology."

Please, don't put the word Honda in the same sentence with "Bugatti Veyron".

Good semi-automatic transmission is an oxymoron. In all essence, the gear box is similiar to that on my mother's 1998 Toyota Sienna (a mini van) which is awful. My question is why anyone would get any of these semi-automatic transmissions if they know how to shift properly.

[FTVfanatic]

Originally Posted by Max

...In all essence, the gear box is similiar to that on my mother's 1998 Toyota Sienna (a mini van) which is awful. My question is why anyone would get any of these semi-automatic transmissions if they know how to shift properly.

I bet you are not an engineer. So, you claim a double-clutch gearbox "is similiar to that on my mother's 1998 Toyota Sienna (a mini van) which is awful."

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

OK. Let it be that way.

And why would someone opt for a DSG? Well, I can think of 8 reasons

"Extremely fast shift time of 8 milliseconds, when shifting to a gear ratio the transmission ECU is expecting"

[mart]

Gearboxes seem to be an obsession with you Max. Are you a qualified engineer with all this information about transmissions?.