Dual-clutch transmission

And I prefer generally manual cars that if I'm going to go drive gas, I prefer manual, like stick shift.

But, and so I'm not huge on DCT, you know, paddle shifters type of thing.

But, oh my God, I had so much fun driving the IONIQ 5N.

And the sound, it even does the overrun.

I don't know the pricing, but like I'm making it up 130 K or whatever minimum for this thing.

Why not have, you know, in addition to your massaging seats, why not have a little bit of, you know, why not have a little bit of fun? And I think that's, I really hope that we can get to that point.

And related to that, you know, the Ferrari 12 cylinder, uh, whatever 12-cylindery, the crazy, super expensive GT two-door, naturally aspirated V12 in the front, DCT in the back, you know, coupe GT car they have.

They now have a manual version, but the manual, like an actual stick shift with a clutch, but it's completely simulated.

Yeah.

so they've had it still has the exactly the same mechanical layout it has the getrag eight speed dct at the back the difference is there's now a lever which they've completely created from nothing um which is exactly where you expect to find it on the center console and there's an extra pedal in the in the footwell which operates the clutch so this is a four-year project um Two and a half of those years were doing the software because you've got to learn what you're asking the DCT gearbox to do because it's got clutches and it's got gears, but it's not configured for a human being to do random things with it, like going from second to fourth.

And the gearbox has been, I think this is one of the key things, the gearbox has has been refined so that it shifts itself in standard form so all the gears and everything inside it is configured to be controlled by you know very precisely by a control unit and then you throw in a manual selection even though it's just shift by wire you've got to work out how to tell it to shift all over again so one of the engineers said we had to learn how the gearbox works and then unlearn it to be able to then control the gears with with with a lever and a

clutch were they the ones that had the idea and took the idea to getrag or or did was it something getrag were thinking about and they pitched it to ferrari as the first

They haven't done one of them for a while.

So, yeah, the brake pedal's smaller, so you've got the heel and toe potential, but not a great big fat pad for the brake pedal.

And the clutch is connected to the clutches in the DCT.

Now DCT is dual clutch, so you've got control of those, they're sort of wet clutches.

I don't love it without the clutch pedal.

I think it's cooler to do a sequential shifter and a clutch pedal with an 8 HP gearbox and be able to clutch kick it and have a more rally style shifter than it is to have an 8 gates but no clutch pedal with an 8 speed DCT.

Yeah, it's weird.

I

And replacing the single clutch automated ones from Aston Martin, Ferrari from the early 2000s, that improves those cars.

Mm-hmm.

I'm not sure you're going to improve the Corvette's DCT too much by doing this.

But I guess we'll see.

The Honda NC.

DCT.

Wait, Honda specifically?

Yeah, that's my make, the Honda NC.

your make.

Yeah, but

mine is manual, but the DCT bikes.

Automatic bikes exist.

It might be a slick top, dark blue.

I forgot if it was manual or DCT, but he's just customizing, right? It's like Lego parts.

So he's getting a S65 put in it.

That's perfect.

You don't

really want.

The other thing I really love about these 135s, DCT.

You got to