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Originally Posted by GNS
Perhaps (and that does make sense), but the official reason BMW and Mazda have given is because you're pushed back in your seat as the car accelerates. Pulling back on the lever to up shift from 1st (which is mostly just to get the car moving) to 2nd is a motion that doesn't fight against the force of acceleration pushing you back, if that makes sense.
Also, from personal experience on a real MT car, I tend to cruise in 4th in the city and 6th on the highway (obviously). Downshifting causes deceleration, which pushes me forward in the seat, AND the motion to downshift to 5th/3rd is a push on the shifter forward.
There is no perfect analogy, as you might expect, but my vast preference is for the pull to upshift / push to downshift method.
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I appreciate the further clarification on zoomzoomers post. There is a DIY to change it to your preference.
I still like it the way it is.
All of the tiptronic/sport shift/semi-automatic transmissions that I have driven are the same as the FR-S and perhaps I am just used to it.
Or perhaps, it is just simply up is upshift and down is downshift. There just seems to be a logic to it.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.