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Originally Posted by slow_ti  these 318ti's make you drive, if you wanna get any performance out of these cars, gotta know how to shift it. |
true, although it teaches you pretty quickly - you can feel the syncro not actually stopping you from shifting but there is more resistance at engine speeds it 'doesn't like'. Some cars I have driven it's quite easy to slip into first gear instead of third, for example, especially when you're not familiar with the gate pattern yet, but it's really hard to push a ti into the wrong gear by accident. Actually for driving slowly round town I tend to push it round in 4th or 5th - 2nd and 3rd are really 'power gears' for acceleration...