Just curious but are you saying manuals are still very prominent on regular cars or race cars? The point was that even race cars now a days are a melting pot of automatic and manual and can be argued that they are not a true manual transmission as alluded to in an aformentioned reply. I am definitely not trying to pick a fight but I think your quote of "Automatic transmissions are in my oppinion for lazy people" is incredibly narrow minded taking into account where technology is taking us.
I am very interested to see how this manual transmission plays out and how it is accomplished. I just agree with the general consensus that I do not think that it is the best route for the Raptor unless the Raptor is no shit a race truck.
If i look at most drivers of auto shifters. They like cruising. And just have the car to go A to B ( keep in mind europe is diffrent then US ). Hence my lazy
Offcourse there might be acceptions
In racing stick is still used a lot. think nascar still uses it even
Offcourse formula one is on a semi auto. And so are loads of super cars
But its down to purpose and luxery.
Luxery = lazy
Stick shift is beeing in controle. Like driving a motorbike.
I like the manual option on the gearbox of raptor and the flappypaddle shifters SDHQ are doing. If the response time of the gearbox is anygood atleast
As in that case its just a 2 hands on the wheel manual
Not attacking anyone but a my prefrence order :
Quick/fast semi auto with flappypaddle (
