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      10-18-2020, 08:57 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by Tambohamilton View Post
But aren't these things which c&d point out as missing, exactly what the OP doesn't want to have?
Well really, his post is self answering. Ariel makes a "car" called the Nomad Sport. It's basically a 2-seat, tubular frame, bodyless sports car with a Honda 2.4L K24 engine. 1,450 LBS., 230 HP, 0 - 60 in 3.5 seconds. Base price is $80K. It has 3-pedals, a steering wheel, a couple of gauges, a windshield with wiper and that's about it. Buy a motorcycle helmet, rainsuit and heated vest and you can drive it most days.

But it takes dedication. Most people want and can afford a car that has a trunk, carries people and cargo, and keeps them warm and dry.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."

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