1st time using Sports Mode on Auto yesterday. WTF LOL
 

Yo everyone. Not sure if I'm in the wrong section but I wanna see if I'm the only one here thinking of this. So I've had my '13 Automatic Whiteout FRS for about 2 months now. I'm still working out small kinks on this quirky little car. Any who when i first got the car I was kinda bummed I couldn't find a manual in my price range so I picked up an auto. I never messed around with the SPORT VCS, SPORT, or SNOW mode as i thought they were just "gimicky". Since owning this car I felt like I should have just waited a month or 2 more and just picked up my 370z as I felt this whip lacks a little HP even though it claims 200HP. So last night I'm driving home on the 60 freeway out here in Los Angeles and I'm like screw it I'm gonna start pressing buttons. And HOLY SHIT... this car is a completely different beast when driven under sport mode. This whole time this car felt like a slightly faster "grocery getter" and this hidden untapped power has been there the whole time?

Anyone else drive this car for a while before turning SPORT on and feeling like a dumbass for never having turned it on since the beginning?? Lol :bonk:

I have MT but if I got the auto I would have had it in sport on my way out of the lot!

Sports mode activates the turbo.

;)Hmmmms.....I must try sport mode....of course when I get on the freeway....freeway driving here on Oahu is :sigh: just blah....LOL! ;)

I drive with sport mode on and VSC at minimum at all times.
Except for when it rains, but that's rare in Bakersfield...

I always turn everything off as soon as I start up the car haha. :)

I was unaware the car is "quirky". LOL at "whip" as well.

it doesnt make the car faster. it just keeps it in gear longer instead of making early fuel conserving shifts. try driving it in manual mode

For me it's start car, press Sport and VSC. I use the paddle to down shift a lot. Manual shifting works well.

The car is hoot to drive I don't regret buying the AT version.

OP is going to stroke if he puts his AT into manual mode.

Dude just hit H3 at night when nobody is around. HPD is never out there!

Hahaha! my shitty luck they will be.....:lol::lol::lol:

Never were when i was at K-Bay and lived all the way in BumFuck Barbers Point.

I have been trying Sport mode some lately just to see what it does.
Seems to keep you in one gear lower than non-Sport and hold it longer than I want. This just wastes gas. The only advantage is it locks up the torque convertor in all gears except 1 so the car feels less slushy.


I find Manual mode better- I can choose the gear I want when I want it and not have to wait for the tranny in sport mode to finally upshift.


It is actually kind of fun to hit the paddle twice to go from 4 to 2 when approaching a corner and hear it downshift faster than a person could do it.


And you can never blow up the engine by mistakenly downshifting into an incorrect lower gear like you can with a manual.