{"id":1801,"date":"2012-12-16T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carscrubs.com\/blog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:27:21","slug":"the-3-pedal-manual-transmission-exotic-car-a-dying-breed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"The 3-Pedal, Manual Transmission Exotic Car:  A Dying Breed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a car enthusiast, odds are you learned how to drive a car with a manual transmission. You know&#8230;cars with that clutch pedal on the side, a &#8220;stick shift&#8221;, and all that &#8220;old-school&#8221; technology.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a successful plastic surgeon or dermatologist or well&#8230;ok, let&#8217;s be real&#8230;you&#8217;re probably a dentist\/orthodondist who escaped this ENTIRE health-care reform stuff ( \ud83d\ude00 ) and you&#8217;re looking to purchase a brand-spanking new exotic supercar? Well, here&#8217;s the harsh reality: modern exotic cars with 3 pedals and a gated shifter are becoming obsolete and if you are looking to order your brand new exotic car with that iconic gated shifter&#8230;well, good luck with THAT!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s refreshing when you come across a modern exotic supercar with the old-school 6-speed shifter! Especially if it&#8217;s a Lamborghini! Oh my!<\/p>\n<p>Enter this <strong>SUPER RARE Lamborghini LP570 Superleggera<\/strong>: Dressed in a &#8220;subtle&#8221; metallic gray known as &#8220;Grigio Lynx&#8221;, this modern exotic sports the proper specs &#8211; with its 5.2 Liter V10 engine pumping out 570 hp and 397 lb-feet of torque. 0-62 mph in 3.4 seconds; Top speed around 202 mph.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the best spec of all: <strong>a 6-speed gated manual!<\/strong> Oh yeah! You see, you just KNOW that this car was meant to be enjoyed and the owner KNEW that &#8211; as he could have easily bought any of the boatloads of E-Gear, paddle-shifting Superleggeras out there&#8230;but he DIDN&#8217;T! Cuz you know &#8211; it simply doesn&#8217;t get any more fun than driving a modern exotic and rowing through the gears! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l044rZHtNYQ\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See more pics here: <a href=\"http:\/\/razzi.me\/a\/21383\"><strong>Rare 6-Speed Manual Lamborghini LP570 Superleggera<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, which do you prefer: the old-school stick-shifting manuals or the modern fast-shifting paddle transmissions?&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a car enthusiast, odds are you learned how to drive a car with a manual transmission. You know&#8230;cars with that clutch pedal on the side, a &#8220;stick shift&#8221;, and all that &#8220;old-school&#8221; technology. So let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a successful plastic surgeon or dermatologist or well&#8230;ok, let&#8217;s be real&#8230;you&#8217;re probably a dentist\/orthodondist who escaped [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[726,728,297,727,22,69,651,652,414,731,729,617,730,725,485,732,507,589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carscrubs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}