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A Sportage GT is also likely to use the Optima GT's dual - clutch transmission — while Kia will continue to offer manual gearboxes on cars like the Proceed GT hot hatch, Biermann is a big fan of dual - clutch «boxes.

The transmission's ultra-short throws and positive engagements bring to mind the gearboxes on cars like the Subaru WRX, although we wish the clutch take - up weren't so light and vague.

Not exact matches

Though the single - clutch automated manual gearbox still lurches and bucks like before, it produces fewer undesired movements, allowing you to focus less on the car's rough spots and more on its sweet ones.

Like anything old and unassisted, the car is only as good as your inputs, and you quickly focus your attentions on the areas where you can make the most difference — matching revs on each downshift and, moving up through the gearbox, hanging just a few extra mm of throttle to make the clutch re-engage smoothly.

As usual, it's important to spec your car wisely in order to protect its value, which in this segment means desirable specification like R - Sport, an automatic gearbox, leather interior and muted paint shades — not a base spec diesel on small wheels in flat red and with cloth seats, in other words.

Like Porsche with the 911R, Aston is using the manual option to appeal to a smaller customer base that doesn't mind paying a premium to get the company's most evocative engine connected to a manual gearbox (Update: To clarify, the manual is a no - cost option on the Vantage but we're willing to bet the cars will have a premium applied by dealers and resellers).

It, however, still shares the engine, gearbox, infotainment, safety kit and some other bits with cars like the XC90, S90 and XC60 based on SPA (Scalable Product Architecture), so the lines blur.

Depending on your settings, the car can creep forward when you lift off the throttle (like a combustion - engined car with an automatic gearbox), or you can allow the four - wheel regenerative brakes to slow the car down and make up some of the charge you've been expending.

Then if you go RADICAL (the way all vendors will need to go tomorrow when PHEV prices will start to go down and they will have no other choice to compete), I mean go the best Tesla - Like all - electric drive trains, just adding a small «pure power generator» Range extender on top, never tracting the car mechanically itself, BUT then pulling the huge central ICE engine, the huge central gearbox, the huge central transmission, saving tons of space and $ for more battery, then you can save a lot of space, look at Tesla Model X front and back Trunks and its internal space!

On the exterior, the model pays tribute to cars like the one - off TZ3 Corsa and under the hood it uses the same engine seen in the Dodge Viper ACR: an 8.4 liter V - 10 engine that delivers a total of 600 horsepower and mates to a six - speed manual gearbox.

It's easy to zone out a little when a company chief starts talking up the merits of their latest creation, but when it's a man like Preuninger with cars on his CV such as the 997 GT3 RS 4.0 and his success in making the current 911 GT3 so darned good, in spite of those initial doubts on the electric steering and PDK gearbox, his opinion on how it drives is worth listening to.

Behind the wheel, it feels more like a Formula One car than anything else, with a seven gear, paddle shift gearbox as standard, that comes with what the manufacturer describes as a: «brutal mechanical direct power - shift race set - up that delivers a genuine race car experience on the track.»

Like other BMW model families, 7 Series now benefits from idle stop - start, the latest eight - speed automatic transmission, even more frugal engines, plus engine management systems that can play tricks such as «disconnecting» the engine and gearbox on the over-run to allow the car to coast at highway speeds.