[s-cars] speaking of R8s

[Robert Rossato]

Yeah, I was thinking the same.  It may very well be the gated shifter, but it's just not the sound I would have expected from a gated shifter.  The noise sure sounds kind of like a spring loaded mechanism, and very consistent (i.e. I would expect a different sound between gears in plane vs. out of plane with the gated shifter).  And there seems to be a slight delay in the engine reaction with every shift.  Not as direct as I would expect a manual to be.  Could be my imagination.

Not a biggie.


---- Steve Powers <sbpowers at gmail.com> wrote: 
> it's probably the manual. one of the recent road tests complained
> about the noise the gate makes when you shift. they thought the gate
> looked cool but was just noisy.
> 
> that would explain both the noise and lack of paddles.
> 
> sp
> 
> On 6/27/07, calvinlc at earthlink.net <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, very metallic sound when shifting though for a tip (if it's anything
> > like the one that's in my wife's A6).
> > --Calvin
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Robert Rossato
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:17 PM
> > To: pkrasusky at ups.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] speaking of R8s
> >
> >
> > Sounds like he's driving a Tip version, yet it has no paddle shifters.
> > Odd.  Pre-production version?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of
> > > pkrasusky at ups.com
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:21 AM
> > > To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> > > Subject: [s-cars] speaking of R8s
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Courtesy of Mr. Ring hisself, SuperK. Maddock:
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/2h7wks
> > >
> > > SCHA
> > >
> > > WING!
> > >
> > > Dude's f'n *cranking*!!!  Looks 'almost' as fast as my laps in the
> > > Peugeot TD, yeah.
> > >
> > > -Paul gimmegimmegimmegimme K.
> >
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