[MmmHamSandwich]

I'm not convinced there is much if any difference between sport and normal auto when you're in kickdown. As far as in manual, if you time your shifts spot on there is probably little difference, however in manual mode there is of course the possibility of short shifting it or banging into the rev limiter depending on what mode you are in.

My guess is they left it into auto mode for all tests. For example, where I put the 30-50 and 50-70 times for the auto, C&D actually still called it "Top gear" as if they manually stuck it in 6th and put the pedal down. Obviously based on the times that is NOT what happened so I took the liberty of modifing the title. I figure if they ran it in full auto there, I would tend to guess they'd do it in the other sprints as well.

I am curious to see what would happen between the MT and AT if they both went at it from say, 80mph. Makes me wonder if the auto truly does run out of steam at 125. That top end performance definitely seems lacking, but then again I rarely see triple digits, don't street race, and a good percentage of my driving is highway where a few extra mpg's and less noise never killed anyone.

Aside from my sneaking suspicion the toque converter allows for some slippage at lower rpm's, I am still very happy with my AT thus far. I am wondering if Visconti or any other ecu tuners can access status info for the transmission. Anyone know?