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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Egg sack lee.....
If the wheel only turned enough that you never had to take your hands off the wheel -- it would be sweet... but in our street cars -- we're turning A LOT more than that... and there's only two ways to do this -- mount the paddles to the wheel -- and then they're out of position --- or mount to the column -- and then they're out of position.
With the shifter in the console -- and I'm talking paddle shift cars that also have the "automatic" style shifter in the console --- half the cars I've driven you push forward to downshift -- the other half you pull back to downshift... that just confuses the shift out of me! For me - I want to pull back to upshift -- and push to up downshift... but there doesn't seem to be any standard set. So I jump out of one of our cars - and into the other and I'm all messed up!
A stick comes so natural....
Sadly -- Our Audi R8 is the R Tronic trans -- not the new 2014 S Tronic dual clutch. It may get traded in for the new version for no other reason than that.
But even then I've read reviews that complain about slow speed downshifts being "harsh"....
The track at Inde Motorsports where I laid on the R8 had a couple real nasty 1st or 2nd gear corners --- and that's what happened to me -- you'd bang down a shift and BANG is exactly what you got -- damn near jolting the car into oversteer. Upshifts are EASY -- you'd be hard pressed to shift better when you're laying all over it... but downshifting is the "trouble" to me. Downshifting -- you're already busy... yarding off speed getting set for the turn in -- hammering shifts and double clutching and rev matching... looking around the corner for the exit etc -- paying attention to any slippage in the front grip or catching the rear.... I don't need the tranny giving me added things to hunt for.
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My S4 has the s tronic dual clutchless and I always thought it was pretty cool. Never raced it.... For autocross, left foot braking, and down shifting, I still think it could be lethal. For real technical road courses and the average driver, I feel the same. But what do I know....
