You merely gloss over the reasons I and folks like me don't care about the Gizmo-R. Truth be told, many of the cars in that race. I'll just quote myself from an earlier masturbatory soapbox moment.
themadscientist wrote:I can no lift shift the 180, no gizmos involved. I have also been driving this car for 10 years and have an intimate knowledge of exactly where to to make the shift. I don't do it except to freak people out. I can shift faster than an auto on 1-2 and 3-4 shift and as fast or a tick slower on the 2-3 and 4-5. I get off the gas and fully clutch during these shifts and my RPMs drop never more than 100 RPMs when I am "working".
I have no doubt that I would never go faster than a purpose-built automatic system but that is not the point. I enjoy actually driving my car. Every layer of technology that seperates me from the car is a detriment. Imagine sex with six condoms on, that is what all this geeky **** is to me.
We all know that machines break. Every level of complexity adds another cohort of crap to break. Seriously, a sensor on the gas pedal talks to a computer that decides how much throttle movement to give based on g sensors and ABS sensors and the exchange rate between yen and hong kong dollars devided by pam andersons current bra size and sends that to a $700 throttle with an an electric motor to open the plate? Yeah screw that BS. I have a pedal, a cable and a hinged plate. Stomp it and go, don't want to blow the tires off then learn to drive.
I tear the power steering out of my cars. This is what you are dealing with.
A sports car IMO should suffer nothing, but rather demand that you rise to the challenge of driving it. Were this technology in an M45, I would still dislike it from a "geez I hope this never breaks" standpoint but would not feel the need to urinate on it in disdain like when I see a GT-R with no clutch and a Z that revs for you.
I am not a curmudeon, I am just a man who does not comprimise my principles. I don't live my life on the beginner setting and cannot tolerate anything that strives to remove control of a situation from me. If I want all this laziness I will by a luxury car.
If you like it, fine, spend your money on it and I wish you happiness. I refuse to drink the koolaid and will suffer for all you people who stick your mouth right under the spigot but I will not suffer IN SILENCE!
Technology is cool, but I look at it like a Cylon. As soon as it stops being a dutiful servant and starts thinking for itself I have a problem with that. If I want someone in the car second guessing me, I'll throw a whiny passenger in the back.
