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Originally Posted by Anaxilus
I said I wanted to tap a second time instinctively because it took so long in manual mode w/o sport mode engaged. It's like the elevator door effect when u press the button and nothing happens. Same for second gear to first, it's much less aggressive, wouldn't blip the throttle and only down shifted to first at a near stop unlike when sport mode was engaged on the tranny and responded like it should from 2nd to 1st at the proper speed rather than being sisified. You can tap the paddle 3 or 4 times in sissy mode and second wont drop to first at the same speed it will in sport mode.
If people are shifting their Autos in manual mode w/o sport mode engaged on the tranny, you are really missing out big time. Might as well just leave it in drive.
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I've shifted in regular manual mode plenty of times, and it never felt slow to the point I wanted to "double tap" it. I was cruising down PCH recently (Malibu Pepperdine area), the up and downshifts were plenty quick without using Sport mode. The throttle blipping for downshifts were perfect as usual through turns, but I never felt the need to downshift back into 1st gear. If you're coming to a stop there really is no benefit to rev match 1st gear (in an MT you would've just put the clutch in at that point, unless you want to sound cool and blip the throttle to come to a stop). When I drove MT, I never downshifted into first when coming to a stop, I just hit the brakes and put the clutch in when the speed slowed way down.