I don't know why these companies with sequential gearboxes in their cars can't offer them without the computer controlled hydraulic stuff, just with a clutch pedal and shifter. It can't be that hard to drive a Manual sequential box around can it?
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I don't know why these companies with sequential gearboxes in their cars can't offer them without the computer controlled hydraulic stuff, just with a clutch pedal and shifter. It can't be that hard to drive a Manual sequential box around can it?
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True sequential gearboxes are pretty raw. Koenigsegg abandoned theirs because they couldn't make it streetable. The kicker is that many of these so-called sequentail systems are nothing more than computerised 3 shaft manuals. Ferrari is a good example; the only difference between their manual and sequentail gearboxes is who has control, you or the car. It's just a fad; a marketing ploy designed to lure those who want the cache of driving something fast, but are too lazy, or can't be bothered to actually drive!Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen
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This lines of this car looks very similar to the Orca SC7. It looks like it's just re-marketed.
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/frame...hp&carnum=2336
Anyway, it looks really raw and un-refined, which is good for some people.
EDIT: It IS the same car, as the Orca was launched by Rene Beck (sounds familiar?), according to Wooter's comments on the UCP page of the Orca. If he spent some more money to make the car look like a decent super-car, he might have some chance against the other supercars (Pagani, Koenigsegg, Enzo etc). But now, he just targets a really small market: The supercar enthusiasts that only care about the driving experience and not the looks.
Last edited by lightweight; 01-18-2007 at 06:00 AM.
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or fan anyway
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anybody else see a BMW on the back end....?
either way, im not really digging it.
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If you mean that the rear looks like the front of a poorly made origami Bimmer, then yes.
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thats exactly what i meant
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What an ugly looking thing: design looks like a Lemans car from the nineties (porsche 962 and the likes)... Since looks counts very much in the sales or not of such a car, I believe this is another deadborn project...
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Just for clarity, when a car weight is usually stated in magazines and webpages, isn't that normally with only the bare minimum liquids and no driver?
Cos bearing in mind this thing has a 120 litre fuel tank, that's around 120kg + the 80kg for the driver, deduct that from the 900kg stated and we're near 700kg. That strikes me as very light for a car with 650 ponies to toy with. 900nm is about 660ft lb, which sounds like a lot, too. Anybody know the origin of the engine?
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You'd struggle to fine a modern Ferrari with a gear stick, Lamborghini is incresingly going flappy paddle too and Porsche is probably going to introduce PDK for the next generation of sportscars... In my opinion the manual is more or less dead when it comes to sportscars, it might last a little longer, but unfortunately the future are clutchless transmissions.
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Twin Turbo Audi V8.
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I'd love to have an FXX or even an Enzo with a manual...
Yes, the others offer manuals, but they've been slanting towards SMG's lately.
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that would destroy it same as it would destroy a muscle car to put the f1 paddles innit
it'd be like putting a manual gearbox to the f1 carimagine driving that... no sense at all
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Why not? If you want to drive, why limit yourself to a flappy paddle gearbox?that would destroy it same as it would destroy a muscle car to put the f1 paddles innit
it'd be like putting a manual gearbox to the f1 car
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Transmissions can be built to withstand that torque or power. Trucks have way more torque than an exotic like that and still manuals exist. They're just too lazy to develop one. How hard could it be?that would destroy it same as it would destroy a muscle car to put the f1 paddles innit
it'd be like putting a manual gearbox to the f1 car
The Pagani Zonda has a manual and that has loads of power and torque.
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