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We all need to blow off a little steam every now and then. Sometimes it's directed toward someone verbally or more often these days a bit of troll bashing on the interweb.
Place your or the best you've seen rant here for us to share.
This is from a thread about the Alfa 4C...
A manual would have taken more space, added more weight and one of the rear cross members would have been redesigned to accommodate it placing stress elsewhere in the rear subframe effecting the overall handling and chassis dynamic of the whole platform.
In this case (and so far to my knowledge this case alone) flappy paddles are justified. In cars like the Nissan GTR that's supposed to be the "Ultimate Drivers Car" flappy paddles and a far too intrusive drivers aid package ruin a perfectly good platform. All the other flappy paddlers are keeping up with the Jones's who think because F1 had it a few years ago (and BTCC these days) people going to the shops need it now.
Between sips of Red Bull ask yourself...
What are Nissan trying to tell you?
Launch control because you can't be trusted to get the car off the line.
Flappy paddles because you can't be trusted to operate a clutch.
Traction control so invasive it's near impossible to get 90% out of the platform because they simply do not trust you to be able to drive the car.
I picked on Nissan here but all manufacturers have been dumbing down cars for years. Ever since the term "Widow Maker" was penned companies have been looking over their shoulders waiting for Injury Shysters 4U to kick their doors down.
The GTR would be one of the best cars Nissan have ever made if they weren't afraid of the consequences of some multi-million Pound football player dying in a ditch trying to copy a move he did on Project Forza Racing.
Drivers aids may have started out with the best of intentions, like ABS for example but why does a car need seven different traction setting and an "M" mode when on and off will do nicely?
:soapbox:
Whoops.
The Alfa 4C isn't a Lotus Elise replica that's more likely to catch fire but a true "Drivers Car" that has moved the benchmark for other manufacturers. Flappy paddles or not.
Be sure to change the names of the other users so's not to breach any privacy laws and only post things with the consent of the contributors so's not to breach any copyright.
Place your or the best you've seen rant here for us to share.
This is from a thread about the Alfa 4C...
Other Poster said:
A manual would have taken more space, added more weight and one of the rear cross members would have been redesigned to accommodate it placing stress elsewhere in the rear subframe effecting the overall handling and chassis dynamic of the whole platform.
In this case (and so far to my knowledge this case alone) flappy paddles are justified. In cars like the Nissan GTR that's supposed to be the "Ultimate Drivers Car" flappy paddles and a far too intrusive drivers aid package ruin a perfectly good platform. All the other flappy paddlers are keeping up with the Jones's who think because F1 had it a few years ago (and BTCC these days) people going to the shops need it now.
GTR Fanboy said:
Between sips of Red Bull ask yourself...
What are Nissan trying to tell you?
Launch control because you can't be trusted to get the car off the line.
Flappy paddles because you can't be trusted to operate a clutch.
Traction control so invasive it's near impossible to get 90% out of the platform because they simply do not trust you to be able to drive the car.
I picked on Nissan here but all manufacturers have been dumbing down cars for years. Ever since the term "Widow Maker" was penned companies have been looking over their shoulders waiting for Injury Shysters 4U to kick their doors down.
The GTR would be one of the best cars Nissan have ever made if they weren't afraid of the consequences of some multi-million Pound football player dying in a ditch trying to copy a move he did on Project Forza Racing.
Drivers aids may have started out with the best of intentions, like ABS for example but why does a car need seven different traction setting and an "M" mode when on and off will do nicely?
:soapbox:
Whoops.
The Alfa 4C isn't a Lotus Elise replica that's more likely to catch fire but a true "Drivers Car" that has moved the benchmark for other manufacturers. Flappy paddles or not.
Be sure to change the names of the other users so's not to breach any privacy laws and only post things with the consent of the contributors so's not to breach any copyright.
