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Old 02-20-2004, 08:39 PM
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Thats a Marcos!
No, that's a Marcos! :p
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Originally posted by Fab 8
Thats a Marcos!
Ding!
Old 02-20-2004, 09:00 PM
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Ah, Imelda with one of her few thousand pairs of shoes! :D
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Originally posted by IkeWRX
It's a 7 speed ricardo automatic, one that shifts in 200 milliseconds, but an auto none the less.. I think it's pretty safe to say even if I'm wrong it doesn't have a BMW tranny in it, and the SMG is still an auto.
It is a manual. It has a double clutch hydraulicaly activated instead of manually. It has all the advantages of both a manual and an automatic, but it is still a manual.

The first application of a double clutch system is in the new Audi TT V6 which they call DSG.

The transmission is a Ricardo, hence the name Ricardo, who are the same people that supply the 6 speed sequential used in the Audi R8 racecar.

Oh, the word on the street is the ME412 is going to see limited production of 300 units/year starting in 2006. This is supposedly a prototype and not a concept.
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Originally posted by murix
It is a manual. It has a double clutch hydraulicaly activated instead of manually. It has all the advantages of both a manual and an automatic, but it is still a manual.

The first application of a double clutch system is in the new Audi TT V6 which they call DSG.

The transmission is a Ricardo, hence the name Ricardo, who are the same people that supply the 6 speed sequential used in the Audi R8 racecar.

Oh, the word on the street is the ME412 is going to see limited production of 300 units/year starting in 2006. This is supposedly a prototype and not a concept.
Hence not manually activated, therefore an automatic. I'm not saying it isn't a good auto, nor that it's not better than a manual time wise. But you will never get the same driving feeling you will with a manual. Just because it has a clutch doesn't make at a manual, just like the SMG is an auto.

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Chrysler ME-Four Twelve concept.....240 on top, thats all i got to say.:D
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It IS manually activated via steering wheel paddle shifters but it also has an auto mode for lazy driving. It just doesn't have a clutch pedal so it is not "foot activated" :p

Would you call all F1, SMG, etc clutchless transmissions automatics? Is the Enzo an automatic?
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If it doesn't have a clutch that you have to engage and disengage to manually shift it, yes. How bout we settle on semi-automatic since that would be a more fitting description for the Enzo, SMG, F1, Ricardo.
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Deal

Semi-automatic then. I always like getting to a "happy-medium"


why not semi-manual? :D
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Originally posted by neit_jnf
Deal

Semi-automatic then. I always like getting to a "happy-medium"


why not semi-manual? :D
Because it would be insulting to manuals :p
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