Re: Magnetti Marelli autoboxes

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

THAT's the issue, really. When YOU are the one doing the shifting, the 
interval seems very quick because you are occupied the whole time. When 
you shift by flicking a paddle or pushing a button, you're involvement 
with the shift ends with initiating the event. Then you go into wait 
mode while you wait, without participating, in the shift. If you are 
used to a normal manual tranny, it seems as if the shift interval is 
long. However, I found that after I got used to it, it was very quick 
and I could dive deeper into turns before downshifting and I could pay 
more attention to cornering attitude, line, exits point, etc. In other 
words, It made me a better performance driver.


George Graves
'86 GTV-6 with an ABNORMAL manual tranny  ;-)

On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 08:34  PM, alfa-digest wrote:


> The thing I do not like with the Selespeed system is how
> slowly it seems to change gear. OK, it may well be fairly
> fast, but when you are just sitting there waiting for it to
> do the job it feels like an age
>
> All the best
>
> Keith
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