Sentences with phrase «manual shift cars»

When my 1998 Maxima 5 speed was totalled in December 2009 in an accident (not my fault btw), I wanted to find another manual shift car.

Even so, provided one can drive a manual shift car, anyone can enjoy this car.

Not exact matches

Driving a manual - shift car in the UK is hard enough for me, but at least I am using my dominant hand on the stick; it must be even worse for righties.

He'll run you a foot race («I can do the 100 in 10 flat — that'll beat most bar players») or bet he can outrun any car over 50 feet — manual or automatic shift.

The very first time anyone tries to drive a manual - shift car, the experience is always the same: Stalling.

Even though he had the manual gear shift in his car there weren't many people in America that had them.

That's why we had this little car with the manual shifter to begin with.

It wasn't his fault that the only car we owned had a manual shifter.

The car is equipped with a short - shifting 6 - speed manual transmission.

My test car came with the slick - shifting manual transmission; the Golf R is one of the few cars left in the performance realm to offer a shift - it - yourself option.

I feel post-shift lag shift on most modern manual cars I test these days.

I was, however, disappointed to find an issue that sometimes happens when I'm in a modern manual - shift car, accelerating hard and shifting quickly (not speed shifting).

Fiat automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles confirmed that the base 2018 Pop trim level with a five - speed manual shifter will start at $ 17,490, up $ 1,500 total, including $ 1,250 more for the car and an aggressive $ 250 hike to $ 1,245 for the inescapable destination charge.

The gearbox seems manual, there's a plate on the dashboard, in front of the shifter with the «position» for each of the gears... Don't think F1 cars had sequential gearboxes until late 80's.

Absent the tC's optional short - throw shifter, our test car's six - speed manual had medium throws — a far cry from the excellent short - throw shifter in the FR - S — but evenly spaced gearing.

It's not as smooth or quick - shifting as the BRZ / 86 twins — though, to be fair, just about every car's manual transmission shifter could be more like the BRZ and 86's.

The six - speed manual is also quite uninspiring, owing to its rubbery and disconnected feel, but I at least commend Mercedes for still offering a shift - it - yourself option in a $ 52,575 luxury car.

My test car, at $ 29,190, had not a single option on it, but included heated seats, automatic climate control, steering - wheel audio controls, and a leather - wrapped manual shifter.

My opinions haven't changed much from the last time I drove a CR - Z, other than the fact that this particular test car is equipped with a CVT with shift paddles rather than a manual transmission.

The fact that it can be equipped with one of the best, slickest - shifting manual transmissions in the world and handles like a smaller car is a bonus.

I still pine for that glorious old naturally aspirated V - 12, and I hope they find a bit more top - end energy for the BC, I'd still have a six - speed manual over the paddle shift any day of the week, and I think the car needs a bit more front - end grip and some interior tweaks (primarily some clear shift lights to help connect with the bruising engine, which sounds similar from 3,000 right up to over 6,000 rpm).

«Basically I think it's six or seven years before there will be no manual transmission, unfortunately, because we still have fans who want manual shift in their cars.»

Another great junkyard find is the shift linkage from a Porsche Boxster that the guys now use for the car's five - speed manual transmission.

The eight - speed automatic shifts smoothly — no one here misses the old DuoSelect sequential manual transmission — but copy editor Rusty Blackwell notes that the shift paddles don't feel as finely crafted as those in the old car.

Until recently, the single - clutch automated manual was preferred to the dual - clutch design for high - performance cars because it shifted quicker and coped with greater torque loads, plus it offered the same manual gear selection with shift paddles and the same mode for automatic shifting.

Although our test car didn't have Nissan's syncro - rev manual transmission, the seven - speed automatic did a great job of keeping up with aggressive up and down shifts.

Only one car here — the M3 — is available with a manual transmission, and both cars we've brought to the track use automatics with seven forward gears and paddle shifters on the steering wheel.

This article quotes a 7.6 % shift from manual to automatic in the ten years between 2004 and 2013 (until end October) with just one in four cars sold being an automatic.

My car, a 2016 Toyota RAV4 hybrid also has the same «S» mode in the automatic (or well, actually, hybrid eCVT) transmission that allows manual emulated shifting.

Yes, the PDK is an amazing gearbox and makes the new car faster, but we miss the heavy, positive clutch and the firm shift action that made the six - speed manual so brilliant in older GT3s.

Using the same 200 - hp flat - four engine, the car can be mated to a six - speed manual or automatic transmission, the automaker says, and the latter with paddle shifters.

I have driven enough cars with a DSG (think a manual transmission that shifts automatically), to know what it feels like when the mechatronic unit starts to fail.

The electric Smart's advantage is its single - speed transmission, which means that it doesn't suffer from the slow and jerky shifts of the standard car's automated - manual gearbox.

The manual shift is smooth and quick, if a touch notchy through neutral, while the automatic shifts are instant and well damped, just like a good Japanese car's.

Visibility is great in all directions, the ride is remarkably comfortable for such a short car, the clutch and shifter are delicate enough they could both be operated with a pinky finger, and buyers who aren't familiar with manual transmissions can follow the eager «SHIFT» light above the tachometer.

(We're still awaiting word whether the all - electric e-tron variant, with 456 hp and a claimed 280 - mile range, will reach the U.S.) If you're looking for the frantically revving 4.2 - liter V - 8 and notchy gated manual shifter, search the used - car market.

Put your foot down and the car accelerates much more quickly than its 201 - hp rating would suggest; short - shift the 2.0 - liter engine / six - speed manual and it's a smooth, quiet experience.

Power is accessed easily through the nice - shifting six - speed manual this test car sported, allied to a Torsen limited - slip differential.

While I've opted for manuals on many of my previous purchases, this time I went for VW's brilliant dual - clutch, paddle - shift DSG manumatic (so similar to a Formula 1 car, you see).

You need to use the car's manual shift mode and paddles to get a little extra hustle off the line.

That makes this five - speed dogleg manual - equipped car a rarity — and shifting slightly more complicated.

Some cars are ruined when their manual gearboxes are swapped for paddle shift transmissions, be it dual - clutch gearboxes or old - school torque converters, but that's certainly not the case with the Giulia.

A CVT with shift paddles is now available, but the transmission you want is the new six - speed manual — a gear - changing jewel that embarrasses the gearboxes in cars costing three times as much.

An interesting aside: if you listen carefully to the Camaro ZL1 as it downshifts and upshifts entering and exiting each turn, it seems that both the red and blue cars have the ten - speed automatic gearbox option as the shifts happen far too quick for it to be the available six - speed manual.

In a manual transmission car, the transmission control is generally called the «stick shift».

Also included in the mechanical makeover is a six - speed manual transmission, which is carried over from the old car with a few tweaks aimed at improving shift speed and quality.

Heck, I celebrate this car simply because it has a six - speed manual rather than relying solely on some paddle - shifted version of an automatic.

To me, the action of the stick shift is ever so slightly clunky when it slides into gear, but I'm very glad that Audi offers a manual in this car.

We can argue the virtues of conventional versus paddle - shift transmissions until we're blue in the face, but the truth is that once Ferrari began offering F1 - style transmissions in its cars, buyers spec'd so few manual - equipped cars that Ferrari couldn't make economic sense of offering a choice any longer.

The 599's fundamentals, based around the aluminium chassis technology shared by other current Ferraris, have been subject to an exquisite attention to detail, and the car also introduces such features as hyper - responsive «magnetorheological» semi-active adaptive dampers, a bespoke «F1 - Trac» dynamic stability system and the quickest - shifting version of the F1 auto - clutch manual yet, appropriately dubbed F1 - SuperFast.