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Originally Posted by jangobox
Or is the Ferrari not an automatic and it has to shift gears with the paddles no matter what?...?  |
Bingo!
IIRC, the Ferrari shifter does not have (or did not have) "automatic" mode like the Tiptronic. It's an optimized shifter that clutches and shifts in one very quick motion when the paddle is flipped.
Somebody please confirm or kill this, but I think the addition of the "automatic" mode somehow slows the shifting ability in the "manual" mode on the Tiptronic and that's probably why Ferrari doesn't have it. This is a guess since the Tiptronic is slightly slower that the 5-speed manual Boxster.