Potential Buyer With Questions/Concerns

Originally Posted by kannibul

If you don't touch the paddle shifters and mash the throttle, it does hessitate a bit as it's trying to figure out if it needs to go to 5th, 4th or 3rd...the shift itself is pretty quick, but more or less it's like it decides on 4th, makes the move, then changes it's mind and goes to another gear. It's enough that you'll notice it, and change how you accellerate if you don't use the paddles or tip it to manual.

If you use the paddles, two bumps and a stomp does nicely (7=>5, 5=>4)

When it goes into 3rd it's only there for a little bit before it drops into 4th. I think the ECU is thinking "fastest accel possible" and forgets where the redline/manditory shiftpoint is...

In that respect, the auto, in auto-mode, is lacking, is on heavy accellleration and how it handles downshifting.

Using the paddles it's easy, as you know when you'll punch it, and once you get used to the ratios, you know where it'll be ideal - and it'll hold that gear...

And after you pass, just drive to maintain speed and it'll slip back into auto-mode again.



One thing I have noticed is that with the automatic in auto mode, it's fairly smooth. Using the paddles gives it a bit more kick. Have it in manual-mode, gives it a lot of kick.

Kind of cool - it's a manual transmission with different levels of "manual" to it.

Originally Posted by RatedZ

Ok, so when using the paddles, it's much more "performance efficient" than letting the auto "do its thing." Good to know.

Originally Posted by kannibul

It's a case of the car being unable to read your mind and act accordingly. It takes an educated guess and it's fairly aggressive in that sense, so I'd say under normal/most conditions it's pretty good - though sometimes it shifts early and holds the gear on gradual accell, rather than bouncing back out if you get on it a bit.

But overall, in the traditional automatic sense - it does it's job pretty damn well, when using the paddles, it's perfect once you learn where the gears are best suited and how hitting the downshift pedal reacts at different speeds.

It's about as close as I'll ever get to a sequential double-clutch manaul, and it does fine for me.