Quote Originally Posted by goodduck View Post
So much Ferrari's R&D $$$ goes to the devloping and advancing these systems. With so many automakers nipping at Ferrari's heels, they have to sell the F1 / high tech state of the art aspect to stay on top. Having a manual F458 is not only a waste of their investment, but leaves them with two fundamentally different cars: a (high tech) race car for the road or a supercar thats hard to differentiate from a porsche, lambo, or pagani.

That being said, something is definitely lost in the experience. This only makes F's like the 355 that much cooler.
you drive the point i was trying to make. the perception that a supercar is high tech only if it has an automated gearbox. that is a myth in the traditional sense -in the sense that it has turned into a common belief based on no concrete, explicit, direct facts- like paul bunyan or che guevara's heroism. supercar classification has a big gray area and no specific concrete criteria.

seen pragmatically a two pedal supercar doesnt make it a supercar any better or worse than a three pedal counterpart, only different, or faster perhaps. imo- a three pedal gives you a more nuanced and visceral experienced. as jay leno said-" it is more exciting to drive a slow car fast than a fast car fast"