Ferrari dropped the manual simulation on the 12Cilindir back on April 15. Big news. Internet exploded. You know the drill. But wait a second. Someone else already did it. Before the prancing horse made its move.
Enter Rezvani Motors. The folks who give us the Beast, the Fortress, the Tank. Usually they’re all armored SUVs and over-the-top supercars. Not this time. They built a simulated manual gearbox. And they did it before Ferrari.
What Is Quick Shift?
It’s called Quick Shift. Developed with Italy’s Studio Carrozzi.
Right now you can spec it for the Ferrari 458. Or the 488. And yes. The 12Cilindari. Plans exist for some Lamborghinis later. Even a Corvette ZR1 down the line.
But here’s the kicker. Quick Shift isn’t optional hybrid tech.
You don’t get to switch between automatic and manual mode. No toggling. It is manual or nothing. Once installed, the shift lever is all electronic. No physical cable connects it to the gearbox. It talks to the ECU. It rides on top of the factory dual-clutch system.
And the clutch pedal? Gone.
You can keep the paddle shifters if you really want them. But the main act is that H-pattern stick. No clutch pedal means you can’t stall the engine. Stalling is off the table. Ferris Rezvani, the CEO, told Motor1 he wasn’t sure how it would feel.
“I was worried without a clutch that it wasn’t manual enough. It was surprisingly more fun.”
Try holding the Ferrari 488 to the redline. The limiter hits. The needle pins. The car bounces right there. It waits for you to shift up. It doesn’t do it for you. That’s the point.
Although it won’t upshift, it will drop to first if things go south. Safety first, obviously.
How Does It Work?
Here’s where it gets weird. Or clever. Or maybe both.
The shifter position doesn’t have to match the gear. Seriously.
Start in fourth? Sure. Put the stick in fifth when you’re doing five mph? Why not.
The computer knows the speed. The dual-clutch handles the heavy lifting of picking the right ratio for that moment. You move the lever? The software just says “go up one” or “down one” from where you currently are. It ignores the physical location of the lever mostly.
“Each gear has its own ID. We tell the computer which ID to select. It doesn’t have to be sequential in position.”
So the shifter is more like a command interface than a direct link. You’re directing the computer. The computer directs the clutch plates.
The Catch: Cash and Clarity
Is it permanent?
No. Rezvani says they touch no safety systems. No deep mechanical gutting. Because there’s no clutch linkage, they don’t need to chop floors or re-engineer pedal boxes.
Don’t like it? They take it out. Car goes back to stock. Clean break.
Price? Let’s talk money.
Rezvani charges $25,00.
That’s just the conversion. Doesn’t cover the Ferrari.
Look at Ferrari’s 12Cilindiri Manuale though. That sticker starts around $675,0. Compared to that? Twenty-five grand sounds almost cheap.
Simulated manuals seem to be the new flex. Ferrari is doing it. Koenigsegg is doing it. Rezvani offers a path for people who miss the act of rowing gears but don’t want the friction loss or the hassle of a real manual conversion in a dual-clutch car.
Is it better? You have to drive it. Is it weird? Probably. Do we need another way to pretend we’re in the 80s? Maybe.
