Even some of the most aggressively sporty cars on the market are abandoning stick-style shifters.
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Late-shifters including Wayne Jingo had little choice but to risk it if they wanted to get home.
But with optional features like racing-inspired paddle shifters, blind-spot detection, adaptive cruise control and massaging seats, the price escalates quickly.
Behind the steering wheel are two paddles that feel like traditional shifters, but looks in this case are deceiving.
As many as 36, 000 gardeners and earth-shifters toiled to meet the royal deadlines.
When I was bored in these conditions, the CVT paddle shifters gave me something to occupy myself in manual mode.
To the outside eye of the biographer is added another complication: these characters are chameleons and shape-shifters, deliberately out to lose themselves.
You may wish the manual tranny had a sixth gear or that there were steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters for the six-speed, dual-clutch automatic.
Readers were quick to point out that weres can only turn into one type of animal, while shape-shifters can take any animal form.
The V8 engine gets 767 total horsepower using flywheel technology at the wheels and a six-speed racing transmission with paddle-shifters at the steering wheel.
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HCD-14 Genesis uses optical recognition to identify the driver and initiate the starting sequence, while gear selection for the 8-speed automatic transmission is performed via paddle shifters.
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The efficiency is thanks in part to Toyota's direct- and port-injection 3.5-liter V6 (306 horsepower and 277 pound-feet of torque) mated to a six-speed automatic with paddle shifters.
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