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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Engine braking to save brakes is pretty poor logic, brakes are cheap to replace whereas using the engine to slow down puts a not insignificant load on the engine and transmission which are much more expensive to replace as they wear out over time. Given the choice to slow down by downshifting vs. using the brake pedal it should be the brake pedal every time.
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I had to suffer through a few days with a loaner Boxster S with PDK. (I hate PDK, so I mean this literally...)
In so-called sport mode, the PDK downshifted through all the gears at every stop. Of course, they were perfectly executed shifts with perfect rev-matching thanks to the microcontroller(s) in charge.
The gratuitous downshifts at every single stop became very annoying and I was glad when I was able to return the POS.