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Originally Posted by DR 86

Of course it will downshift itself in manual; what it won't do is upshift itself, even if you bounce off the rev limiter. If it doesn't downshift as rpms drop with decreasing speed, the engine would stall. For example, you're in manual mode, driving 70km/h in 6th, you brake to slow down for a turn. As you're speed drops to around 58km/h, the transmission will automatically downshift to 5th. As you're speed drops below 50km/h it will downshift automatically to 4th and so on.

Why wouldn't you want to car to remember the highest gear and automatically upshift for you? Simple: how would it know at what rpm to upshift each gear from 1st to 2nd to whatever gear you were in when you stopped? If I wanted to car to automatically upshift, I would have it in auto mode. The whole point of manual mode is so I can (if I wanted) throttle it to redline before upshifting to a higher gear and increase access to torque and horsepower.

I never knew that. I had thought you would need to downshift as well as upshift under manual mode. Good to know. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Tromatic

Perhaps I did not make myself clear: 1. In a Scion tC RS-8, step on gas, manually shift the AT into (for example) third gear. 2. Decelerate. The AT will downshift, winding up in first at a stop. The number 3 remains on the digital gear indicator. 3. Accelerate. The AT will upshift from one to three. IOW, it remembered the highest gear you manually selected. You could also select a gear while stopped (fourth, for example) and it would upshift to fourth and stop there. Can you get the FR-S to do this? Why would you want to? Why not?

I use my ears for for that.

That's good.