I've never sat in a car thinking, "If only this was a nine-speed automatic", but the truth is, this was subtle and elegant at every speed, shifting deftly, making driving feel like flying.
Wearing, of course, a perfectly fitted Armani black suit and thin black tie, cigarette dangling from a world-weary lip, unkempt with a two-day beard, keeping the RPMs up as you speed shift around fountains and down narrow streets?
If you want to keep building up speed, shift up.
Not that we had any complaints about the way the five-speed shifted.
At Interbike, Shimano, which is the industry's largest equipment maker, was highlighting a largely aluminum 10-speed shifting system.
The Rotax also has a push-button starter, rather than a lawn-mower-style cord, and a simple two-speed shifting system.
We experimented with team-based racing in DLC for Need For Speed Shift but players were only really out for themselves, which is bad.
In song after song, the Roots demonstrated the kind of dynamics and speed shifts that can't be duplicated with a volume knob or a tempo control.
Preinstalled apps include Cut the Rope and Need for Speed Shift by Electronic Arts, proof that this tablet has horsepower when needed.
The genre's most famous mobile games are missing, but thanks chiefly to Electronic Arts, great ones still await, like Need for Speed Shift 3D, Yahtzee, Tetris and Risk.
As lead designer of Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed, Andy Tudor is close to finishing the second iteration of the simulation wing of Electronic Arts Needd for Speed driving game franchise.
