Quote:
Originally Posted by Mixer
Do you not see the death of a thousand paper cuts here?
|
No, because the Civic Type R never used the standard manual gearbox in the first place. That's misinformation there, almost as if there is a bias against the category!
The original SEAT Leon Cupra cars used the factory DSG (never the manual as that was not allowed), and most of the SEATs in TCR have changed to the stronger racing sequential gearbox (as per all the other manufacturers).
It's
not ground breaking news that a Volkswagen DSG is not exactly the most reliable gearbox in the world -- plenty of road going VW enthusiasts with faulty mechatronics units can attest to that!
While Honda manual gearboxes are not perfect, I would be more worried about the Opel if factory manual transmissions
had to be used! IIRC, the factory General Motors M20 gearbox is notoriously unreliable even in road going Astra VXRs and road going Astra diesels... The bearings tend to go bad, because the gearbox is poorly designed.
