Originally Posted by wstar

Well, I never drive in "regular auto", so it could be different there. In the M-mode it's a lot more finicky about what you're doing with the throttle when you click for a shift. It generally does it reasonably smoothly if you hold a consistent throttle position all through the process, but lifting or pushing it much during the shift (or just before/after with all the lag in play) leads to uglier shifts.