Talk:NSU Ro 80
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A question of copyright infringement was raised about the initial version of this article. I contacted the author of the website that contained similar content and received:
- Hello Matt,
- No problem at all, I was the writer myself on wikipedia!
- Jan Hullegie
- webmaster
- www.nsu-ro80.com
- www.ro80.nl
- www.paxchristicollege.nl
so I think this is settled! —Morven 10:06, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Clutch
My uncle had a Ro80 in the early 80's and I remember it having a switch operated clutch on the gear stick knob (so no clutch peddle). I'm not sure if this was standard or a modification to the car he had. Any thoughts..? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.108.73.47 (talk) 10:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- It was standard. Someone - I think you - has described the thing now in the article. There was always a concern that the passenger might absent minded disengage the clutch simply by resting his right (rhd) or left (lhd) hand on the top of the gear knob - eg if the passenger was just short of his/her 17th / 18th birthday and learning to change gear with the 'wrong' hand while a passenger, but I suppose the answer was to restrict your passengers to those who knew how to keep their hands to themselves. There was also, I think, some kind of a torque convertor in the transmission system which increased the glorious (and maybe somewhat misleading in terms of the rotor seals) sense of unburstability as you increased the revs. The thing I never understood was how it worked. There certainly was NOT any sort of a visible switch on the top of the gear lever (British English terminology). Was there a simple thermal sensor which responded to the heat in the hand and so threw a switch which disengaged the clutch? That seems the most likely, but if some one (1) knows (or can look up) the answer and (2) enter it to the article using words that I can understand, that would be interesting... Regards Charles01 (talk) 10:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
