Heimkehr
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- First Name
- James
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- 2021 JLU 2.0T
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I've experimented with the AutoStick feature on my 850RE since bringing the vehicle home.
It's an adaptive transmission. That is to say, the shift points will eventually mimic the driver's habits, based on how much right foot he has, or has not, been giving it.
After allowing a bit of time to pass, and having tried to beat the computer in the fuel efficiency game, the computer won. The ZF 8-speed really is the best automatic transmission I've ever used, and not simply because of this single metric, either.
You can indeed manually shift to a higher gear than what the transmission has already selected for the driving conditions. Depending on the overall conditions, the engine might lug a bit. Having mechanical sympathy means I rarely try to force the issue. The 2.0T already provides comparatively good fuel mileage, so there's no need to chase my tail for fractional and ephemeral improvements in the MPG calculation.
I've experimented with the AutoStick feature on my 850RE since bringing the vehicle home.
It's an adaptive transmission. That is to say, the shift points will eventually mimic the driver's habits, based on how much right foot he has, or has not, been giving it.
After allowing a bit of time to pass, and having tried to beat the computer in the fuel efficiency game, the computer won. The ZF 8-speed really is the best automatic transmission I've ever used, and not simply because of this single metric, either.
You can indeed manually shift to a higher gear than what the transmission has already selected for the driving conditions. Depending on the overall conditions, the engine might lug a bit. Having mechanical sympathy means I rarely try to force the issue. The 2.0T already provides comparatively good fuel mileage, so there's no need to chase my tail for fractional and ephemeral improvements in the MPG calculation.
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