How many use the paddles
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Love mine, but they do require some necessary modifications.
Such as giving them the same curve of the wheel itself (they are flat, and interfere with the stalks. Not easy material to bend, so I used a hacksaw to make a deep enough cut to allow some reshaping without damaging the nice solid feel.I find I use them much more regularly as I canyon carve.
Another minor note about the paddles: My knee does at time catch the lower part of the lever causing an occasionally unwanted shift.
All that, and I haffta say I love-em..... And use them frequently....
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Yesterday I was watching the 6 hrs at Watkins Glenn race track of the IMSA cars in GTD and GTLM . All of the cars have manual paddle gearboxes. Seeing some of the in car shots it was interesting to see how they shift during the event. Now I compare it to the NASCAR event at the same track and the amount of driver involvement is completely different as one can imagine. I understand the advantage of the F1 type gearboxes and even the sophistication of the ZF type auto boxes but if you want driver involvement there is nothing like a 3 pedal car. For normal street driving I think our paddles are good for decelerating but don't serve much function during acceleration. I hear from some of the old Ferrari guys that there was more skill required to drive a 3 pedal car and anyone can drive an F1 in auto mode. Anyway it gives us the option of going either way. Oh before the paddles I wonder how many used the shifter to up/down shift their cars.
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My previous BMW didn't have paddle shifters but it did have the sport option in the drive selector, flip it over and you can manually change gears. I used it just as often to maximize performance with it's 360hp. Manual shifting the auto-box is more about getting a bit more out of a high-hp car. I never use this function in my company car, there is nothing to gain out of manually selecting gears with a 4 cylinder Malibu no matter how hard I try. With the Jag or my previous Bimmer it allowed for a serious "kick in the ***" when you locked in that gear and hold a high rev to access instant power. A little extra that makes up for the fact that I don't have a manual tranny.
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