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Sentronic advantages... Posted by Mike Lynch [Email] (#81) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Mike Lynch) on Fri, 7 May 2004 14:01:04 In Reply to: Re: No 6 speed issues here....., Brian, Thu, 6 May 2004 15:22:29 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
As the best example, the Aero Academy for 9-5 Aero folks used Sentronic autos exclusively. Paddle shift eliminates a whole class of clutch shifter interface problems, i.e.: burnt clutches, over revved engines, grinding gears, missed shifts, and allows for the focus to be on driving, not shifting. All the intricacies of shifting is a driving school all by itself.
Even for those of us who are accomplished at shifting, rev matching, double clutching and heel and toeing, there isn't any of us who hasn't screwed up big time and missed a shift or selected the wrong gear. At racing speeds this can wreck you or severly damage the engine, clutch or gearbox.
Also with Sentronic your hands never need leave the wheel and your focus isn't diverted.
A 5 speed auto is probably has just about the same ratios as the top 5 gears in a 6 speed with the torque converter supplying the gear below 1st in the auto. In a 9-5 with only a 5-speed stick, the 5 speed auto has closer ratios.
And to restate the obvious, you can manually shift the Sentronic, you can never automatically shift the manual. Automatics are better on resale too.
People still have the paradigm that an automatic ruins a fine high performance European car. That was indeed true some time ago, but now with the excess of power availible in today's cars, a 5 speed automatic, and the ability to manually shift the auto convienently (you've always been able to select gears on shift quadrant of older automatics, but not without deliberate, focused, don't go to far.....where as with the Sentronic you can just slap it), it's whole new ballgame.
The world's highest performance cars have paddle shift.
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