I think you may be muddled as no euro manufacturer has done it since around the mid 80's, even my ‘85 mini had them set for LHD and having owned many euro built cars over the years, I can say that none had the stalks set up for RHD, many Vauxhall’s, Peugeot, Citroen etc and I have driven many BMW’s, Mazda’s, Toyota’s,…

The last RHD car I drove with the indicators changed over for RHD was the Mk 1 Nissan Micra I learnt to drive in, in the early 90's. It just isn’t done at all anymore over here.

We considered a used Leaf or Renault Zoe to replace our Citroen DS4 now we have replaced the Abarth 500 with a SEAT Leon 1.8tsi, we ended up ordering a new BMW i3 as a lease through my partners company (which he owns), the Leaf is just too boring and the Zoe too cheap looking and feeling!

What, they still make it, I thought it had been put out to pasture years ago!?!?!?!?

The one in my SEAT Leon is a dry clutch one and it’s silky smooth and unnoticeable in normal driving but very quick and responsive when in sport or manual mode, it does I’ll admit sometimes get a bit confused in situations such as driving over speed bumps or rolling on when approaching a junction and then putting your…

Maybe only a couple of manufactures have manged ot get it right, VAG seem to (as they were the first I guess), and the one BMW use in their high performance models like the M135i etc is awesome and addictive to use in manual mode, the satisfying click of the paddle, the lightening fast up or downshift (with a lovely…

I agree, manual gearboxes are a distraction when driving for most people and seem pointless when most of your driving is stop\start and town situations.

Ahh yes the Ford Power Shift box, how did a company like them get it so wrong, it beggars belief, especially as Nissan\Renault use almost exactly the same box and it’s fine!    

You wont regret it, I love mine, still have a manual car (a Citreon DS4) and I can’t stand driving it in town now!

Why is that, is it because there were issues with them when they first came out, especially in very hot climates? I was under the impression they are ok now and the early ones got very long extended warranties put on them.  

No idea, I think CVT’s are cheaper to produce for low power engines but get much more expensive when you need to put any decent amount through which is why most manufacturers only put them in economy cars, they don’t to scale up very well to powerful engines. Dual clutch boxes aren’t really that complicated in…

They really aren’t very good at being cars are they! lol

I really don’t see the attraction of them, they aren’t that quick, don’t handle all that well, aren’t comfy or have nice interior, are dreadfully designed (from a mechanical POV) and built, they just look good (though there are better looking cars) and sound good (until they go pop!), all the nopes from me.

You would think that, I would think that, most people on Jalopnik would think that, but your average Joe would just see a cheap good condition Ferrari that they can have on their drive for 2/3 to 1/2 the price of one with a few more official dealer stamps in the service book!

You are American I take it and have some weird fetish over manual gearboxes? They are not the epitome of driving pleasure at all (being as they are norm here), infact they can often make driving a chore, like in traffic etc. Having been a manual only car owner for over 20 years (so all my driving life) I have just…

So this particular car is bit of a lemon then that the owners should have checked out better before they bought it, or this all normal for F355's and thus if people had any sort of sense they all should only be as valuable as what a scrap merchant will give you for it?

So what you are saying is a Ferrari F355 is the most idiotic purchase a person could ever make? lol

Exactly, plenty of people will just see cheap Ferrari and buy it, even it if it’s 2/3 of the price of the one of a fully main dealer serviced one.

No we want to discourage them from making any CVT’s at all, there are much better options, such as the “DSG” type DCt boxes (as long as it’s not the Ford one!).

I’m sure you can change the oil without taking the engine out, maybe the coolant, brake fluid and filters? Obviously you won’t be doing belts without dropping the block but it has only done 1k miles during the time it needed 38k spending on it!