YES I’M YELLING.
It’s that exciting news.
The F-TYPE is a forever favourite car.
Here’s the blog tag, and here’s the review of the 2015 for the paper.
This is a Gated Shifter
Not into them.
I’m not 100% on the logic behind it, something like: because the engine is so precisely tuned, imperfect shifting causes damage. Except I found it caused poor shifting.
Why: 3rds 3rd, just let me put it there, it’s the same elbow-wrist-flick forever, why is this metal stopping me, my rhythm is now broken, and attention removed from the road, and that high-pitched ding noise when it happens, awful.
Ferrari used to use them extensively, but today…
Only 2 cars offer a gated shifter:
1 – Audi R8 (above)
Manual VS Automatic Sales
Chart of sadness.
These stats are from JD Power & Associates – an official auto marketing research, and stats tracking company. So, sadly these numbers are correct.
I don’t get it – manual is more fun, more control, makes you a more alert driver, and they’re cheaper to buy.
Wrote a “how to shift gears” column, here. So easy guys; really, you could train a monkey.
(it’s a Fiat gear shift)
First Comes Smooth, then Comes Speed
That’s the rule of learning to drive well, fast – first comes smooth, then comes speed.
I’m good at neither. I’ll get it done, but it won’t be elegant. But I have great enthusiasm, and the appropriate amount of aggression. Just need more seat time.
Here’s what it should look like:
Note how smooth; I’m filming this freehand.
Driving is president of FEL Automotive, Chris Bye.
It’s a 2013 Honda Civic HFP
(Honda Factory Performance: tuned out of the box, limited edition) – Honda.ca
It was Honda’s second annual ‘Manual School‘.
I brought Niki along. She’d never shifted gears before, but left feeling confident enough to buy her first car in manual YES mission accomplished.
With her is Daniel, whom you’ve met before hi hi.
(here’s the first annual ‘Manual School’ – there’s 3 videos)
How to Shift Gears
You can move a car using only the clutch, and that’s Step #1. That’s the “bite point,” your new BFF.
As is the emergency brake when parking, manual cars don’t have a “park gear” like automatics.
Read in online at Autonet.
Favourite line:
Lastly, don’t be intimidated. Europe is the opposite of North America in that the majority of cars there are manual; so there’s no way an entire continent is better than you, you got this!
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