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#6 of 9 Re: -/+ - not true tap up/down? [yury] by prdm Jun 05, 2007 (8:09 am)
Replying to: yury (Jun 04, 2007 11:52 am) I'm going to have to steal my wife's car and check this out. Replies to this message: yury (Jun 05, 2007 8:24 am) tiger0810 (Jun 27, 2007 12:57 pm) yury (Jun 27, 2007 1:21 pm)
#7 of 9 Re: -/+ - not true tap up/down? [prdm] by yury Jun 05, 2007 (8:24 am)
Replying to: prdm (Jun 05, 2007 8:09 am) you don't even have to drive it, just shift to L and play with +/- buttons Replies to this message: tiger0810 (Jun 27, 2007 12:57 pm) yury (Jun 27, 2007 1:21 pm)
#8 of 9 Re: -/+ - not true tap up/down? [yury] by tiger0810 Jun 27, 2007 (12:57 pm)
Replying to: yury (Jun 05, 2007 8:24 am) I've played with this feature before myself, and I definitely noticed that it's not a true "manumatic" as well. Although you can go through all the gears with the +/- control, when shifting up you are still waiting for the car to catch up, you don't actually have control over up shifting...only down shifting and holding a lower gear. Replies to this message: yury (Jun 27, 2007 1:21 pm)
#9 of 9 Re: -/+ - not true tap up/down? [tiger0810] by yury Jun 27, 2007 (1:21 pm)
Replying to: tiger0810 (Jun 27, 2007 12:57 pm) hence the question what the term "true manumatic" means exactly.   i have always been under impression is that what is referred to as "manumatic", "sport shift", "tipronic", "auto with manual mode" is no more than a shift range limiter, where the true "manual" action if forcing it down to a lower gear while being in a higher gear. upshifts are done automatilally up to the selected gear.   I kinda suspect that while the core piece is a hydraulic auto transmision you can't really implement manual upshift control...because it's not fully computer controled, the way it would be in, say, double clutch transmissions.   But i am no expert by any means....that's why i opened this topic so i can be proven wrong

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