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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 05:29 AM
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ZeroShift means you can carry on shifting - you just don't need to use the clutch pedal when you do it.

The shift quality is "I can't feel it" ...which is the kind of shift that, as a racer, I would always aspire to achieve. If you're upshifting and hanging the tail the least disturbance to the wheels the better. ZeroShift = no disturbance.

You still control when you want to shift (and which gear you want when you want), the ZeroShift FlatLiner system sorts out the clutch/and gas which - for downshifts - includes the blip. Up the box you just hear a very fast change in engine note. Even on drive-by shifts like this turn heads because there's no manual 'pause' or auto 'slur'. It turns heads for the right reason: it sounds cool in a loud car. CVT would just sound weird.

Acceleration in a quick car is a couple of seconds of strong 'g' interrupted by a shift then another burst of 'g'. The more powerful the car, the greater the % of the 0-100 time spent in pauses (not least because big power = big synchro = slow shift). ZeroShift gets rid of the pauses to make the strong 'g' last all the way until wind resistance and stiffer ratios cause it to reduce.
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