I'm finding the new Prelude a lot more appealing than I expected. The simulated 8 speed gearbox shifts in S+ mode are really engaging according to the previews. The way it bumps you on each upshift reminds me a bit of the Ioniq N's personality. The brake setup seems to be pretty serious if not...
The dampers are dynamic, adjusting many times per second according to accelerometers and wheel travel sensors. So +R is not that stiff on the street. On track, it seems to be calibrated for F1-smooth surfaces, so it ratchets up the stiffness and that's when people start to complain it's too much...
I dunno, I think you youngsters are missing out on the sweat-inducing fear of stopping at a red light facing up a steep hill, an idiot car behind you 3 inches from your bumper, and now the light's green and you need to get going without hitting him.
The way auto rev match works is it revs when the clutch is being released, so right at the end of the shift process.
Normally when a human does it, you're blipping the gas starting from when you pushed the clutch in. You rev it, shift, and you let the clutch out as it's falling, but you time it...
This hasn't been the case historically. It's really the ECU and anti-stall software that's giving the car a bit of throttle to keep the engine running. With any older cars, you have to be very careful when letting out the clutch.
You're right about the definition of riding the clutch, but he's talking about the throwout bearing, which is in between the clutch fork and the diaphragm. If you sit for minutes every day with the clutch pedal depressed waiting for a light, for instance, you are going to wear out your throwout...
I apologize in advance for feeding the ChatGPT troll...
Vietnam is a tiny player that's making decisions based on their limited economic power. We, as the shitty bully, have forced them to do what we want. Does that make you proud of our country? We've lost any good will they had with us in...
This will raise the price of our favorite car by quite a lot.
https://apnews.com/article/autos-tariffs-trump-tax-imports-ford-gm-e53823ef7bbb7b3c46d11eca90aaa638
This sort of reminds me of a friend who was shopping for a used 911 GT3. The one he as looking at was getting Porsche's certification and part of it was investigating any and all engine codes. This car had several overrev events in the ECU. Most were tiny but one was significant with hundreds of...