Official: Lamborghini to Drop Manual Transmissions

” You can count on next year’s replacement for the now-8-year-old Gallardo to come only with an automated transmission.”

Lately more and more sports car manufactures drop manual transmission and switch to DSG or automatic.
Lamborghini’s R&D director Maurizio Reggiani, in an interview with Motor Trend magazine, has confirmed what driving enthusiasts and purists world over have been hoping wouldn’t happen: no future Lamborghini models will come with a manual gearbox.

Reggiani explains that a manual transmission is“a break in the electronic chain of command that harmonizes absolutely everything that happens between engine combustion chamber and tire contact patch. The only way Lamborghini can guarantee soothing smoothness in city driving or back-thumpingly explosive acceleration on a winding road is for every system in the car to be interconnected. You can’t rely on a driver to always shift gears without glitches.”

Of course, Lamborghini isn’t concentrating only on the development of high-tech supercars of tomorrow. There’s also a newfound focus on building today’s models better.

Making sure every single part is exactly as it should be before production begins takes time. “At the moment, we are working on cars for 2014,” says purchasing boss Eike Poslednik.

Finally it’s clear: all new Lambos from 2012 will come with a fully automated transmission only.

Source: Motortrend