I’ll refer to my earlier comment. Starting with the BT46B engineers have proven capable of building a car with such high cornering g forces that drivers begin to get gray-outs. When that car became illegal, racing became a regulated competition, no longer one going for outright speed, no holds barred. Therefore I…

I find it’s a small minority of people I know that can drive stick but choose not too. I have taught numerous people how to drive stick and just about all of them (even people basically uninterested in cars otherwise) never want to drive an automatic again.

goddamn. Gettin heated man

Simple. Because cars are about having fun. I don’t think any race car should have a dual clutch. Williams, Brabham, and Chaparral have proven we can build race cars so fast humans can’t drive them. Therefore, all of our driving revolves around fun and skill and having performance cars be manual-only shows an…

Want some science with that? Idaho stop laws (stop as yield if there is no other traffic with any right of way) have been proven to be safer and faster for everyone.

I am of course (this is Jalopnik, what a surprise) of the opinion that it isn’t worth buying without a stick.

Same difference as far as I care. It’s a different trim level, same car.

Taken on the same drive, they’re not the best pictures ever but it’s a pretty special car. One owner (my dad) all original German delivery Corrado VR6.

A G8 GT is probably out of budget. Well, maybe not with an auto but certainly with a stick...

Making racing better is really simple. Bring back manual gearboxes and set an upper limit to the amount of downforce a car is allowed to produce probably as a percentage of car weight. I say drop downforce to about half of what it is now, maybe more.

The R/T story about the Evora 400 said that it’s so popular dealers have actually spoken for the press cars already.

AP Racing brakes and a low cg I think...

Most things are pretty damn cool if you’re interested in the engineering aspect of them. I spent a good 15 minutes marveling at the simple and brilliant design of my friend’s foldable drying rack the other day. Needless to say, she think’s I’m strange!

David, this is because you’re an engineer. I can where these people think but I get the engineering mentality. I see a system like the suspension and my first thought is “God that’s a brilliant design.” Non-engineers or enthusiasts, not so much I think.

I’d STAR this more than once if I could.

lol got any career advice?

Mazda went to all of the effort to cut holes in the bit of the windows that never rises above the doors and yet they could make that targa panel manually stowable...

SMG is a single clutch automated manual

well they share about half the components but you’re pretty much right. It’s fascinating engineering how they did that, Car and Driver had a great technical article on it.

I actually find that gray area hilarious. I think some drag racing does that too, right? IIRC it’s because automatics can take more power before they run into serious trouble