High-end sports cars with paddles use an automatically triggered manual transmission, it's a sequential shifter, not a classic automatic transmission. There us

High-end sports cars with paddles use an automatically triggered manual transmission, it's a sequential shifter, not a classic automatic transmission. There used to be a pretty wide divide between "manual" and "automatic", but now that gap has narrowed and the terminology overlaps. This is an example of a what's inside a paddle driven engine: http://eng.kaps-transmissions.com/products-si-full-sequential-gearbox.html http://eng.kaps-transmissions.com/products-si-full-sequentia... It's "clutchless manual", not automatic.