Sentence examples for paddle shift from inspiring English sources

So we were the first to introduce in Formula One an automatic gearbox with a paddle shift and to transfer it to our road car.

This chapter discusses the encapsulation defects and failures including wire sweep, paddle shift, warpage, voids, flash, nonuniform encapsulation, foreign particles, delamination, popcorning, and fracture.

However, buyers will be less concerned about razor-sharp performance than they will be about looking cool – out goes the head-banging, race-bred paddle shift, in comes a smoother, Audi TT-style dual clutch system.

Today's small block is all-aluminium, and the transmission is a 6-speed with paddle shift, but the recipe remains familiar even if the ingredients are fresher.

Paddle shift gear-changing, braking systems, hybrid engines, lightweight carbon fibre materials and energy recovery systems, have all helped "improve the breed", as the saying goes.

With a six-speed automatic and paddle shift for its 335-hp V-8, Audi expects excellent performance (although we'll wait for the official 0-to-60 times and a test drive).

Quick paddle shifts are particularly surprising because the transmission is a conventional automatic and not some sort of exotic dual-clutch automated manual.

It also has paddle shifts for the gears, and at high speed a driver has little time to look down at the wheel.

One area of pre-launch doubt, Jaguar's decision to offer the F-Type only with an automatic transmission, is banished once you experience the eight-speeder's super-quick sporty paddle shifting.

With a 100-horsepower, 1-liter VTR firestorm engine, a 6-speed, paddle shifted transmission and a paltry 309-pound curb weight, it's the sort of mower that Forrest Gump could have used to run circles around the Crimson Tide's fastest sprinters.

With more aggressively bolstered seats, paddle shifting of the transmission (with rev-matching downshifts), larger 19-inch diameter wheels, oversize six-piston Brembo front disc brakes, variable-ratio electric power steering and an adjustable air suspension system tuned to control body roll, the F-Sport is significantly more responsive and entertaining on twisting back roads.