Like 20-inch wheels and V12 engines, paddle-operated gear- shifts are an exclusive preserve of the supercar club. Or are they? From the end of this month, the MCC Smart, one of the UK's cheapest cars, gets the same method of swapping cogs as Ferrari's 575M F1 and Aston Martin's Vanquish!
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By Michael Specht
May 2002
Like 20-inch wheels and V12 engines, paddle-operated gear-shifts are an exclusive preserve of the supercar club. Or are they? From the end of this month, the MCC Smart, one of the UK's cheapest cars, gets the same method of swapping cogs as Ferrari's 575M F1 and Aston Martin's Vanquish!
The paddles are part of a facelift for the city car, and will be offered as a