Ferrari are bringing back the Manual! | The Car Podcast Emergency Podcast
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Okay. I'm seeing it. Sorry. Shut up.
Fucking unbelievable. Okay, here we go. Right. Hear ye, hear ye. Important news from the world of the motor car. Ferrari has only gone and put a manual, inverted commas, gear change into a road car. Something I think they said they weren't going to do again. I can't find... the exact quotation. But I think they did go on the record and say they weren't going to make a manual again. And actually, if you drill into the data of the new Dodici Cilindri Manuale, you'll find out it actually has a dual-clutch gearbox, but with a manual operation now available. First of all, the question goes to Neil Clifford, who I think is sitting holding a red telephone at Arnage in Le Mans. Do you count this as a manual gearbox?
Yes.
Well, I don't know why they made a Spanish one.
Oh, look at that.
What exciting news did Ferrari announce about manual gearboxes?
It's a very loud 996. Just go past. I do. I've quickly seen a bit of the information. It's clear why they fired, what's his name? Galeria. Galeria. Because he's the guy that said, we will not make manual gearboxes. If you want a manual gearbox, you go and buy a secondhand one. He said that last year. So the writing was on the wall, maybe, for him. Or maybe he's took the Luce drama. This is a lovely antidote for Luce, isn't it? I think it's brilliant. I know it's not really, really, really, really manual, but it's like 80% manual. Mr. Harris, I'm sure you can explain because you're the only guy that's read the press release. But I think it's good news. We have to celebrate good news. 12-cylinder, mainly manual.
It's got a clutch pedal. You can do 200 miles an hour in sixth, and you can change up to seventh if you want to do more than 200 miles.
How does the new Dodici Cilindri Manuale differ from traditional manuals?
I think it's great news, and we should celebrate Ferrari for doing it. Yeah, I agree. What do you think, Manish?
Well, I did listen to your voicemail and I thought it actually had four manual gears. And then you press a button and then it goes into fifth and sixth with the with the with the. Oh, so you've got six working gears and then it will go into a seventh if you press the button.
Yes.
Ah, the hyperdrive button.
Yeah, so they wanted a gator with six slots in a reverse. Yep. And if you happen to find yourself in a dogfight with a particularly irascible 991 GT2 RS, when you get to very high speed, you can press a button and go into automatic mode to get that last 15 miles an hour.
Is that like the Millennium Falcon is being chased by something and all the stars go...
Yeah, it's literally like that. You get lines on the screen and your face... Yeah. So it is six forward gears then, Manish.
How does that change your... Look, I'll talk about what I know about. Lola famously has an automatic gearbox with four forward gears. So, you know, I'm not one who's going to sit there pining on kind of modern Ferraris, but it... I don't know. It does strike me very slightly as pizzas on a wall. They've been criticised recently for the aesthetics of the modern cars. And I'm not a fan of the aesthetics, the size of the modern cars. And shortly after they make a statement saying, well, never do a manual car. They do a manual car, but it's very slightly gimmicky because there's a DCT in an override.
They fired the bloke that said that.
Yeah, Neil, that's not really a strategy because they kind of hired him and he worked there for many years before. He hadn't worked there for five minutes and suddenly came out with this line going, well, we'll never do a manual car. I think you'll find, given your corporate CEO experience, that line may well have been vetted by a lot of Ferrari PR people. I think there are a few. So I think they may have changed their position and actually dumped a guy doing it. Who knows? I don't know. Strikes me as a bit gimmicky. How many cars are they making, Neil?
1,963, I'm told.
1,963 people will benefit from this car over the next five years?
It's a billion of turnover. I wish I was clever enough to run a company where I could have one idea and it gave me an extra billion of turnover.
Is it an extra billion of turnover? So how much more are they charging for the manual version than the non-manual version?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:09–1:09
2
What exciting news did Ferrari announce about manual gearboxes?
1:09–2:05
3
How does the new Dodici Cilindri Manuale differ from traditional manuals?
2:05–7:14
4
What are the implications of Ferrari's decision to produce a manual car?
7:14–10:28
5
How does the manual gearbox function in the new Ferrari model?
10:28–11:08
Speakers
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