Jag_Warrior
11-16-03, 04:35 PM
A friend of mine just got a new Maxima last week (pretty sweet car). We took it out for some "road testing" yesterday ( :) ). The car is equipped with one of those (slow shifting) auto-stick gizmo trannys. I know those things are meant to give the driver a feeling of being in a high performance/racing car. So here's my question: is there a general standard for which direction is for upshifting and which is for downshifting in racing cars? In the Maxima and several other road cars I've driven with auto-sticks, forward shifts up. In the DTM race I'm watching now, back seems to deliver the upshift. I forget, which way is CART? What about the various cars in ALMS?
If the shifting direction changes from car to car/series to series, seems like this could be a problem unless you're consciously thinking about the shift.
BTW, the Maxima is a fun car with very decent horsepower, but it's too heavy, has too much body lean/roll and doesn't give ANY steering feedback. NONE! You can't feel anything happening. Hmm, why are we going sideways and WHY is that tree coming our way? I didn't feel anything bad about to happen. :eek: If I'd wrecked this thing, you can't imagine how bad I would have felt (being the big road racing fan in the car). After years of being SO good, my insurance agent would have been very disappointed in me.
If the shifting direction changes from car to car/series to series, seems like this could be a problem unless you're consciously thinking about the shift.
BTW, the Maxima is a fun car with very decent horsepower, but it's too heavy, has too much body lean/roll and doesn't give ANY steering feedback. NONE! You can't feel anything happening. Hmm, why are we going sideways and WHY is that tree coming our way? I didn't feel anything bad about to happen. :eek: If I'd wrecked this thing, you can't imagine how bad I would have felt (being the big road racing fan in the car). After years of being SO good, my insurance agent would have been very disappointed in me.