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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
I recently drove the AT through back roads of the mountains of North Carolina, and on the freeway through same said mountains. The AT had no issue maintaining speed in 6th gear from what I could tell, including grades that trucker warnings on them (6% or greater). This included on and off cruise control on the highways.
In the mountain roads I was enjoying myself so I had it either in Sport or Manual mode, never got into anything higher than 4th during that time. Regardless of the grade the FR-S had speed it left on the table because of my willingness to drive it faster. I was doing 25-35MPH marked curves and switchbacks at 45-60MPH the entire time.
I will say that when passing, the AT had to kick down to 5th gear. Sometimes I dropped it down to 4th or even 3rd gear at highway speeds to pass and stay in the upper torgue range. 3rd was never really necessary, just having some fun after finally getting through the break-in period.
Some more details in my Owner's Journal if you are interested. Hope that helps.
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Thanks Dadhawk, that is indeed useful information. I was wondering about the response in this type of scenario. It sometimes hard to tell the response on the slopes of the torque curve. Was the transmission downshifting from 6th while in cruise control? How controlled was that, would it shift down sequentially or also jump gears eg. 6-4th?
Where will I find your owners journal?
cheers