They seem like the obvious next step for the devs to work on (after a nice long break ). Are we likely to see proper gearboxes in S2 or will we have to wait for S3?

It would seem to me that simply changing the time to change gears and adding a sound that's different for each car would go a long way to have a basic sense of changing gear (which atm seems to happen like magic) in LFS.

Yeah, in this LFS is really missing something... It would be very cool to have different gearboxes: The normal synchro-boxes (the ones we have now) for the road cars, a dog box where you can shift without the clutch and with a nice whine sound for the GTR's and a semiautomatic box for the single-seaters.

I found it a bit strange that they did a semiautomatic thingy for the BF1 but don't use it for the other single seaters...