Sve manja upotreba manuelnog menjača u sportskim vozilima

[dragvorl]

Lamborghini has something special planned for fans of stripped-down, elemental sports cars. To reinforce the brand’s raucous image, Lambo is releasing a limited-run, rear-drive-only Gallardo stripped of extraneous luxury options and outfitted with the special edition’s raison d’etre: a manual transmission.

“It will be the least-gilded, back-to-basics stripped version,” promised Lamborghini of America chief operating officer Michael Lock. It was conceived, Lock said, when he realized that 2013 will be the end of the line for the traditional transmission at Lamborghini.

“We are in an era when customers demand technology and products that adapt to them,” not the other way around, as is required by Lamborghini’s famously finicky gated H-pattern shifter.

While seasoned experts like Valentino Balboni can row through the notchy gates as if they’re driving a Miata, the rest of us have to perfect our technique. How perfectly, anachronistically Italian. But Lamborghini buyers now choose the paddle-shifted transmission by 9:1 over the old do-it-yourselfer. There’s essentially no market for the stick.

The admission that this is Lamborghini’s last year of the manual transmission, along with the knowledge that, at nine model years old, the Gallardo is practically an antique compared to its rivals, implies that this is the end of the line for the car.

“It is the oldest supercar still standing, like a boxing champion,” crowed Lock. “It is defying the normal supercar product cycle. Can you imagine if Ferrari were still trying to sell the 360 Modena,” the Gallardo’s competitor at its debut?

It has been able to do that because of Lamborghini’s mechanistic styling language, Lock asserted. The organic forms preferred by Ferrari and others don’t age as well, while the overtly man-made lines of Lamborghinis since the Countach have in-your-face staying power. “It still has that drawn line,” Lock observed.

So what next? “With the replacement for the Gallardo, Lamborghini will be at a crossroads,” Lock explained. “The replacement for that car is pivotal.” That replacement has to preserve Lamborghini’s heritage of outrageous styling, as expressed most recently in the limited-edition Veneno, but in a form that can be manufactured and sold in the volume of the Gallardo, Lamborghini’s best-selling model ever.

Until the replacement comes, we can entertain ourselves with Lock’s pet project, the stripped-down, manual-transmission Gallardo send-off edition. It’s a sad good-bye of sorts, but it also means we shouldn’t have to wait too long to meet the Gallardo’s replacement and learn the name of a new fighting bull.

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[NexT]

Samo sto je 360 predstavljen 1999., tricave 4 godine ranije...

[dragvorl]

Pa da, ali jesu bili direktni konkurenti tad, na to se mislilo.

[nidza]

Za prave muškarce i uživanje u vožnji - manuelni. Svi se nešto trkaju sa štopericom pa je neophodno imati 2 kvačila i klackalice na volanu. Jes' pa nego...

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[Uroš S.]

Meni je i sa DSG-om uživanje u vožnji, možda čak i više nego s manuelnim.

[Ji 4Tze]

Da ne bude posle samo Nissan Playstation generation

[Laki021]

Opet da ponovim, nakon sto sam probao automatik u M5, ne zalim ni najmanje za rucnim menjacima u sportskim kolima.

[ADrei]

Meni je i sa DSG-om uživanje u vožnji, možda čak i više nego s manuelnim.

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[AcaKayak]

Sa manuelnim se moze reci da je zanimljivije jer je teze voziti auto i definitivno je potrebna mnogo veca vestina na stazi, ali da je brzi... Naravno da nije.

Samo, nekome je dobro sto ce DSG i njemu i Sumaheru da promeni isto brzinu... A neko je odusevljen sto ima s manuelnim pred sobom zadatak koji vrhunske vozace razlikuje od ostalih... (nije samo to naravno, ali jeste jedna od stvari).

Dokle god bude ljudi koji zele vise da se "uzive", bice potrebe i za manuelnim...

[starac vujadin]

S DSG može da bude zabavno u manuelnom modu, a u realnosti to je mali procenat vremena korišćenja tog menjača.

[Uroš S.]

Na to sam i mislio, a s druge strane nudi i prednost nesmaranja menjanjem u svakodnevnoj vožnji. Ne znam kako je onima koji su svakog dana po centru grada i po gužvama, meni je dovoljno jednom nedeljno da mi presedne ručni menjač.

[dragvorl]

S DSG može da bude zabavno u manuelnom modu, a u realnosti to je mali procenat vremena korišćenja tog menjača.

Upravo.

[Floyd]

Automatik je prakticniji ali je manuelni zanimljiviji.
Tako da apsolutno mogu da razumem ljude koji u sportskom autu radije biraju manuelni.
Ali me s druge strane niko ne moze ubediti da je voznja auta sa manuelnim menjacem kroz gradske guzve neko zadovoljstvo.

[nidza]

Vožnja bilo čega, sem bicikle, kroz gradske gužve je jako daleko od zadovoljstva imalo to manuelni ili automatski menjač...

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[dragvorl]

Svakako njakanje sa dve dodatne komande ne doprinosi daljem uzivanju u voznji u uslovima stani kreni voznje.