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Alistair Charlton

Today’s luxury car buyers want experiences, not performance

Lewis Hamilton Ferrari F40.

Lewis Hamilton is onto something. A couple of weeks ago, the F1 ace revealed his desire to build a Ferrari supercar called the F44, after his race number, and fit it with a manual gearbox.

Ferrari hasn’t installed a clutch pedal and its iconic, open-gate manual shifter to any road car since 2012, when it switched fully to the paddle-operated, semi-automatic gearboxes that are much quicker but lack driver involvement.

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