The raging success of the Hellcat would suggest you're wrong... worst overall performer of the big 3 (even the widebody hellcat is slower at VIR than a PP2) yet sells in DROVES all because of that big 707
Just to play Devil's advocate here... you forgot to mention the part that they spoke to Ford engineers and were told that the paddles were overclocked and activate the next gear before being fully depressed to give the illusion of a quick reaction shift
Negative. It's just then when you act like a troll, you get called a troll. Doesn't matter who it is that calls you out. Don't act like one and you won't get called out on it. Simple.
The way I read that from autoblog is that they were “overclocked” to actually engage faster. You pull, it engages right away. No “squish.”
I know reading comprehension escapes you, but one can't be a troll if one owns said product. You're just a snowflake, that's all.
OBD/CAN-bus instrumentation will show it. What, you/they don't drag an oscilloscope and alligator clips to car test events? Nobody brought contact sensors and a Pi with inertial/gyro chips and 5 digit readout? What kind of half-assed testing regimen is this?
The other guys can and have instrumented theirs. So what's Ford's problem?
Please note my posts said nothing about Tremec's first high-power DCT being anything short of exemplary.
I disagree with this. What they have done doesn't give the illusion of a quick reaction shift. They have reduced the system delay, giving a quick reaction shift. It's not an illusion. The overall system response needs to be accounted for here. They basically took some "slack" out of the system.
From everything I can tell, the SS 1LE punches above its "weight class" on the road course. And the ZL1 1LE is also super fast. It's the daily enjoyment of driving the car where the GT350 really shines. That is why I want another GT350 and I'm probably not going to buy an SS 1LE instead. Even though the SS 1LE is a lot less expensive and I'm cheap - I know that I won't enjoy it as much as a GT350 and I will not be happy in the long run in the Camaro. I will probably test drive a few Camaros before making my final decision, but I've driven them before and I prefer the GT350 by a lot.
This is correct. Instead of having the signal to shift the transmission happen when the paddle is fully depressed, the signal is delivered when the driver STARTS to depress the paddle. This is genius! I would expect that the time to depress the paddle is actually LONGER than the time it takes for the DCT itself to shift. So, Ford engineers actually sped up shift time a huge amount by reducing the human contribution to shift time. As a Ford guy, I hope they were able to get a patent on this, because I absolutely love this idea.
speaking of...
A hellcat costs less than 70k on average. Even a demon isn't 100k. I stand by my statement. A 600hp Z06 will sell, be successful and be damn fast.
Cool. Get what makes you happy.
I'm sure I'll be blabbing excitedly on here about whatever I end up with.
Like I said. Snowflake.
It's not that @9secondko is sensitive, it's that your posts on here are all one dimensional anti-Ford. There's just so much bias in your posts it's difficult to ignore. Frankly, I don't believe you own any Ford vehicles. It just doesn't fit with your posts.
You guys are both beyond stupid. Go through my posts. I organize drives with members of this forum. I attended autocross events with members of this forum. All in my mustang. You guys are fucking snowflakes, that's is literally it. You keep screaming troll like a triggered liberal every time I post anything that you don't agree with. "Troll" is the only thing you have and you spout your opinion as fact.
I would hate to hang out with you. You are so negative about Ford. It would drive me crazy.
Well good news, because I don't hang out with one liner nut swingers either way, so it wouldn't happen.
As an owner, one quickly discovers deficiencies and have every right to be negative about them and the morons at the helm who allowed them thru to production. Criticizing something you do NOT own (or at least driven a few times) is just vacuous pontificating. I'm an equal opportunity trasher of stupid (or praiser of good) be it the Mustang EB/GT or Camaro. My "negativity" of either side is reinforced the more I contrast the vehicles in question one day to the next.
