Sentences with phrase «timed upshifts»

The six - speed automatic gearbox is also well tuned with well timed upshifts, and it cracks off snappy downshifts when you need to merge onto the expressway or make passes.

It has to do with how long to hold onto the gear you're in through fast corners and at high or low revs, how to time upshifts and downshifts, and how to best manage the power and torque flow.

SynchroRev Match doesn't do much to help the 3.7 - liter V - 6's tendency to float its revs, so waiting for the tachometer's needle to drop for a perfectly timed upshift will still take a beat or two longer than a downshift.

Not exact matches

«You can not be slow braking, fast, slow braking, fast, all the time, in such a long straight, with people actually thinking we are going, suddenly upshifting and suddenly braking again.

«We're racing against the [Porsche] Cup cars, who have an edge on ultimate pace because they've got a sequential dog «box so they lose so little time in upshifts, where as we have the gearbox from the street car.

Those shift times are cut by 30 percent on upshifts and 40 percent on downshifts.

Upshifting out of a corner with a manual is done all the time.

We shifted the 2014 Porsche Cayman in fourth gear halfway down the runway, and it stayed in fourth gear until just before the finish line when we had to upshift one last time.

Full - throttle takeoff is not entirely smoke - free, but wheelspin can be easily controlled, and the almost immediate first upshift consolidates the coupe's composure, so by the time you're in third, traction is — at least in the dry — no longer an issue.

Quite apart from its V12 engine and seven - speed dual clutch gearbox (which has shorter, closer stacked ratios than the F12, with 30 per cent faster upshift times and 40 per cent quicker downshifts) there is a wealth of new electronic wizardry employed to help it bend the space / time continuum.

Full - throttle upshifts are over and done in 60 milliseconds; and downshifts are now complete in only a quarter of the time they used to require.

The shooter (pro spy photographer Brian Williams) captured the car taking off from a stop several times, and each time the transmission upshifts through second and third gear very quickly — too quick to be a manual.

Time to upshift.

More satisfying, if puerile, is the pop accompanying each full - bore upshift, and it's cacophonous at other times too.

One ill - timed mid-corner upshift invariably dents the flight path; one missed apex is all it takes to make it run ludicrously wide.

Upshifts are smooth and well - timed, and highway kickdown happens with little delay.

The SVR completes the sprint 0.5 seconds faster than the 510 - hp Sport Supercharged, courtesy of a retuned Bosch engine computer allowing more immediate throttle response, heightened supercharger boost pressure, and a revised ZF eight - speed automatic transmission, with upshift times reduce by up to 50 percent.

The basics statistics are that power from the 6.3 - litre V12 is up to 769bhp at 8500rpm (from 730bhp) and 520 lb ft at 6750rpm (from 509 lb ft), the 7 - speed dual clutch transmission cuts shift time by 30 - percent on upshifts and 40 - percent on downshifts and the gear ratios themselves are shorter by 6 - percent.

Like Jen, I had a hard time perfecting my 1 - 2 upshifts.

It's a sign of the times when you're surprised to find a gearlever protruding from the transmission tunnel of a newly introduced car, but when you nail the perfect redline upshift or execute a sweet series of heel - and - toe downshifts - accompanied by an approving gargle from the V8's twin exhausts — the simple, enduring pleasures of a manual gearbox are made abundantly clear.

There's supposedly a new cylinder cut on upshifts when you're in Sport mode, but sadly I couldn't really detect the added drama it was meant to add and although overall it's not a bad sound being piped into the cabin, you won't lie awake at night longing for the next time you hear it.

Upshifts need to be precise and punchy to mitigate the loss of revs — and therefore boost — as you find the next gear, while braking and downshifting is your chance to exercise old - school skills, modulating your brake pressure and positioning your right foot just - so to allow well - timed blips of throttle.

The Toyota four's two - stage cams go into banshee power mode at about 6000 rpm, so first and second gears give only a split - second taste of the engine's full juice before it's time to upshift.

The automatic double - declutching function when downshifting as well as the brief, precisely defined interruption of ignition and injection when upshifting under full load shorten shifting times and increase emotional appeal when adopting a sporty driving style.

On the other hand, keep your foot pinned to the floor on upshifts and the transmission becomes recalcitrant, lengthening shift time and noticeably impeding your forward progress.

If sharper response times and delayed upshifts are required there is a sport mode and a manual gate.

Sometimes it'll jump into the right gear when you need it to, and other times you'll push the pedal and it'll downshift, instead of upshifting.

This is because together with optimised response and shift times, the closer ratio spread ensures better transitions when upshifting.

The double - clutch system can upshift and downshift at random times.

Kick down is not overly harsh or slow to arrive and upshifts are timed just right more often than not.

The 6 - speed automatic transmission is well - timed with quick upshifts that help make the most of that EcoBoost engine's power.

Also, unlike Sport mode, which gets the gearbox software to change up at the right time, Corsa holds onto each gear until you manually upshift.

A brief and exactly defined retardation of ignition and injection during upshifting at full load provides for shorter shift times here.

Rather than dropping quickly to a lower engine speed in preparation for an upshift, the Si's engine holds its speed for a second or so before dropping, which makes timing the clutch engagement for smooth shifting difficult.

We're not sure about the Tiptronic; it's fun to play with and fairly quick to react when the lever is bumped to change up or down, but we saw it upshift (while in the manual «Tiptronic» mode) a few times on its own well before redline.

Upshifts and downshifts are performed quickly enough, but in sport mode they're oddly timed and surprisingly harsh, as if the gearbox suddenly began channeling the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR while the rest of the car remained an Audi.

In Natural, the transmission is unobtrusive, downshifting at the right places and upshifting at the correct time.

The system ensures the best possible acceleration off the line in all conditions, and once under way, its upshifts are timed and performed at the optimal revs.

The Mercedes gearbox is respectable and efficiently routes the power to the rear wheels; the manual shift function cracks off quick upshifts and downshifts that are OK, but a little clunky at times.

It also makes for easy driving since the upshifts are quicker and the engine runs smooth all the time.

A new Gen II transmission controller analyzes and executes commands 160 times per second, and wide - open throttle upshifts are executed up to eight - hundredths of a second quicker than those of the dual - clutch transmission offered in the Porsche 911.

In the 2015 Corvette Stingray, the new 8 - speed enables a class - leading 29 - mpg (8.1 l / 100 km) EPA highway estimate — a 3.5 % increase in fuel economy over the previous six - speed automatic — and a quicker 0 - 60 time of 3.7 seconds, all while delivering wide - open - throttle upshifts quicker than those of the dual - clutch transmission offered in the Porsche 911.

However, we noticed that the downshifts are noticeably slower than the upshifts, which at times makes the power output jerky, especially when making a quick overtake.

The automatic in my tester was acceptable, although it was prone to the occasional harsh upshift and seemed momentarily flustered at times — not sure what the driver wanted to do.

Upshifts from the nine - speed torque - converter automatic take longer to arrive, downshifts show up at the right time with an almost preternatural ability and the engine has no problem pushing the car along with all that torque, since the car is generally sitting smack dab in the power band.

On the other hand, the Volvo's «Eco» mode offers the best possible efficiency since upshifts are quicker with the engine running smoothly at any given time.

This is when the AMT system struggles to both upshift and garner speed at the same time.

A third small LCD between and above the gauges shows the current gear, turning red when it's time to upshift.

On the other hand, keep your foot pinned to the floor on upshifts and the transmission become recalcitrant, lengthening shift time and noticeably impeding your forward progress.

There's also an available driver - selectable Sport mode that adds more weight to the power steering response and improves upshift times.