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Old 09-07-2005, 06:58 AM
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I will put my two cents in from cars a little more exotic. One of my policyholders has an all wheel drive 956 TT that has has some work done to it. It is making only 546 hp(lol). One of the fastest if not the fastest street driven car I have ever been in. No real worries about wheel spin. Anyway when you are making that kind of power I just felt short changed driving the car though the back roads as you did not spend much time in any gear.

It would pull like a freight train only to bump the red line and time to shift to the next gear. When I was driving I was thinking to myself...if this think had and auto with a paddle shift what a rush that would be.

Drove a 360 Modena with a paddle shift....well that is all that needs to be said.

I am running a T56 in my car. I was concerned with the nitrous I was going to run for the same reason I would be with a TT car. You are on the juice and it is time to shift. You lift a little and the n2o shuts off, bang the gear, and it is back on. Since my car is NA with no juice now, I will stick with the manual. If I had a TT car it would be an auto all of the way.
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