Here’s Why Lamborghinis Don’t Have Manual Transmissions Anymore

How dare Lamborghini make some of the fastest cars in the world without an optional manual transmission! Blasphemy! What a waste! Rawr, rawr, rawr, blah, blah, grrr! Yes, we get it, guys, you’re upset that manual transmissions in high-performance vehicles are becoming a rarity, but these brands aren’t just throwing up their hands and doing this on a whim. It’s all for a good reason.

Road and Track‘s Robert Sorokanich recently caught up with Lamborghini’s Head of Research and Development, Maurizio Reggiani, and got personal confirmation that the Lambo manual is indeed officially dead.

“Unfortunately I must say yes,” Reggiani said. “All the systems that are integrated in the car need to have a dialog with one another. The clutch is one of the fuses of the system, whether you’re engaging or disengaging the torque. This creates a hole in the communication between what the engine is able to provide and how the car reacts to the power of the engine. For this reason, unfortunately, I must say I am sure that in a premium supersports car like [the Huracán], we will only do a semiautomatic.”

As the power in these cars has progressed and increased, it’s essentially become so massive that the possibility of human error is too great. A manual transmission would not only make the car slower, but it could also possibly damage the clutch, if it were left up to our foot.

“Unfortunately, it’s the demand of the control of the chassis,” he continued. “If you want to control the chassis, you must control the power. If you want to control the power, the clutch must be under the control of the brain of the car, not your brain.”

Reggiani goes on to explain that in reality, manuals have not been pure since back in the days of the Lamborghini Diablo. Check out the rest of the interview over at R&T.

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Via [R&T]