HPI FTO Comparison

Aspenmai · Post by **Aspenmai** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:06 am

Did anyone read the article comparing manual and autos FTOs in the latest HPI (the one with the R34s on the front)?

What do you all think? I'm a tipt owner thinking of getting a manual now

HiRAEdd · Post by **HiRAEdd** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:40 pm

I haven't seen the article, but I've owned both Tiptronic and now manual. Aside from my natural bias towards a manual car, I have to say, it's so much nicer to drive the manual. It may be my imagination but I feel the acceleration is far better too in my manual. Having total clutch control is much better too than a computer controlled quick gear change as in the tiptronic.

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:43 pm

That was a good article, they love the fto's manual gearbox, and give a great wrap on the tip gearbox too, they also posted a dyno comparison of the too, and was astounded that the tip did not have much less power.
They also mention that these days a manual fto is worth around 8k more which suprised me, didnt know they were getting that rare

akumi · Post by **akumi** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:50 pm

yeah for any tip, i can't feel the torque when the gear engages, apparent it feels "softer" grrrr

GPXXX · Post by **GPXXX** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:02 pm

Is it just me or did it take me a a few attempts at reading the comparison article?? Seems like one paragraph is on the wrong side or something LoL..

G_A_V · Post by **G_A_V** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:18 pm

Yeah i know i couldnt work out where page oen continues, think there was a little stuff up

D-TRAIN · Post by **D-TRAIN** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:28 pm

GPXXX wrote:Is it just me or did it take me a a few attempts at reading the comparison article?? Seems like one paragraph is on the wrong side or something LoL..

Yeah I saw that as well!

I couldn't find that missing paragraph though.