Let's be honest. This: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dodge-Vipe…

To me, 'Hyper' denotes exclusivity, attention to detail, and extreme engineering. The Pagani Huayra has 730hp and many consider it to be a Hypercar. The Hellcat has 707 hp. So should the Hellcat be considered a Hypercar? If Hypercar status was only related to hp figures, then yes, it would be considered a Hypercar.…

I had an F430 owner point to the exhaust valve actuators and with a straight face tell me that they were twin turbos. This was before UGR ever touched a 430.

Matt Farah breaks down the math on the most recent episode of the Hooniverse podcast: http://shoutengine.com/Hooniverse/hoo…

Haha somebody recommended my post and then I saw your last reply.

They may have found things wrong with the car, but there's no reason for them to report their findings. Doing so would only tarnish their brand's reputation. If a part was found to be the cause, every single news outlet would have the story posted immediately. There's a clear conflict of interest.

Must've replied to the wrong person. I agree though. Probably the slowest shifts I've seen in a modern car.

Oh I'm mistaken. I thought the Sportshift II was an auto and not an automated manual. That's incredibly slow then.

He's shifting the auto gearbox with paddles. Not a dual clutch, or a single clutch unit, it's an auto box.

He is... The paddles are connected to the auto transmission.

It isn't a sequential box, it's a fully fledged auto box.

Sounds like somebody is still a little hurt that their auto bogged off the line and resulted in them seeing the backside of a 17yo Japanese import. It's okay, there's always next time.

That's another area Porsche still hasn't admitted they're wrong. You have to pay extra for the steering wheel with real paddles, and it doesn't have any buttons or controls on it. The base steering wheel has the thumb shifters and all of your multimedia and driver info buttons, but you can't have both.

I would argue that autos have dramatically increased the amount of "my dick's bigger" drivers on the road. Any asshat can drive a ferrari or lamborghini now. They don't enjoy driving, or even cars for that matter, but buy them for the image alone. They're the ones who crash their 360 Modena on (technically off) the…

It boggles my mind that Porsche's PDK is still backwards.

If you DD a sports car it's completely fine to have an auto/pdk/dct/whatever-other-gearbox. That honestly may be one of the biggest reasons all sports cars are coming as "autos" now. They're all dead reliable, quiet, & comfortable. Why not DD a sports car?

You nailed it. There's no skill in an automatic.

Why does it matter?

There are tons of petrolheads that drive an auto as a DD. Zero shame in it. But if you have the chance to buy a manual sports ("sporty" in this case) non-DD car and you tick the 'auto option box, then we break out the pitchforks.

I think it would be reasonable to say that your readers aren't the ones demanding an auto.