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He claims the car can easily do way way over 500kph and that the limiting factor in top speed will not be the car but track conditions, the driver, tyres or 'sanity'
Careful. Autogyro is likely to pop up with a new username and tell us why its not really "seamless".
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Indeed, seemingly seamless shift™.
shifting and seamless are mutually exclusive terms
ie shifting ie stepping from one mechanical relationship along the load path to another cannot be seamless
unless a suitable continuously varied series or parallel eg electromagnetic load path is added
to me this wasn't a feature of Ag's scheme
The way this term seam is used may be rooted in a reference to the manual transmission or the single clutch semi-automatic. From the driver's perspective, the DCT and this "LST" are seamless compared to a clutched manual shift, so marketing can run with it. Seamless is not an absolute term expressing a value of zero, nor is seam a value expressing no zero; they're both, in use, subjective terms. Yes, ideally, seamless should mean zero fluctation of torque applied to the wheel, however, as a wise Canadian once said, "The rules are all made up, and the points don't matter."
The definition should be simple - does the torque to the drive wheels taper smoothly (with no dropout or step) to the value available in the subsequent gear? If not the shift is seamless.
