LeVeL
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Yeah, and an early-2000s tiptronic is total crap for that.It's not for cruising, it's for driving roads like this:
Yeah, and an early-2000s tiptronic is total crap for that.It's not for cruising, it's for driving roads like this:
Can attest to that, A4 had thatYeah, and an early-2000s tiptronic is total crap for that.
No one said that.To assume that you can’t like a car with an automatic is narrow minded. Even if t’s not always what some of us want.
It's a personal preference but to me shifting is a very big chunk of what I find fun about driving a car. The biggest reason why I don't hate driving the X, even though it's really outside of my general vehicular tastes is that I can still shift.To assume that you can’t like a car with an automatic is narrow minded. Even if t’s not always what some of us want.
You all missed that the + and - shift directions are reversed between the two cars
It has always bugged me that this was never standardized.
You all missed that the + and - shift directions are reversed between the two cars
It has always bugged me that this was never standardized.
You sure about that? I don't remember commonly seeing paddles in street cars till this decade, while my 04 A4 already had a tiptronic. Actually I think the first "paddleshifted" car I saw was a Pontiac G6, but they weren't actual paddles just buttons on the steering wheel.Paddleshifting still isn't standardized and it was around longer than Tiptronic.
VAG did it wrong, in BMWs and the Fiat it's in the same direction as a dogbox/sequential racing boxYou all missed that the + and - shift directions are reversed between the two cars
It has always bugged me that this was never standardized.
You sure about that? I don't remember commonly seeing paddles in street cars till this decade, while my 04 A4 already had a tiptronic. Actually I think the first "paddleshifted" car I saw was a Pontiac G6, but they weren't actual paddles just buttons on the steering wheel.
VAG did it wrong, in BMWs and the Fiat it's in the same direction as a dogbox/sequential racing box
I actually knew that, not sure why GP is not the standard, seems much easier to upshift.on motorcycles, which are the longest continuous users of them, we have two patterns, "conventional" and "Grand Prix".
I actually knew that, not sure why GP is not the standard, seems much easier to upshift.
Yeah this is the specific thing that kills me on that. The bug is up to upshift but the fiat DOWNSHIFTS so I will go to upshift the fiat and downshift and it gets angryYou all missed that the + and - shift directions are reversed between the two cars
It has always bugged me that this was never standardized.
Near the 93/95 cloverleafStick with regular auto in D in the bug, since tiptronic is terrible anyways, and use the manual mode only in the Fiat - that way you'll just get used to the Fiat's shift directions and that's it.
Where are you again? Saugus or something?
oh man. The world needs a Low Lyfe VW Douchebag Cambergang New Beetle.I can pretty much guarantee manual swapping the bug is a no go. Between all the VAG electronics that would have to be replace/reprogrammed and the fact that there is no enthusiast scene for new beetles...
I can pretty much guarantee manual swapping the bug is a no go. Between all the VAG electronics that would have to be replace/reprogrammed and the fact that there is no enthusiast scene for new beetles...
I can pretty much guarantee manual swapping the bug is a no go. Between all the VAG electronics that would have to be replace/reprogrammed and the fact that there is no enthusiast scene for new beetles...
Not even an APR engine or trans tune?