There is no crescendo
up near the redline, just one urgent and omnipotent surge of revs accompanied by a flat and rather nondescript blare of exhaust.
Filling it with more expensive 93 - octane bumps that number up to 250 ponies at 5,000 rpm, but it doesn't matter because the gains all happen
up near redline, when all of the CX - 9's performance lives in that low - to - midrange rpm zone where most drivers actually do their driving.
This is one of those cars that loves to run hot and
up near redline.
Not exact matches
This is a massive benefit: The car shotguns out of corners, and while it's delighted to scream all day
near its
redline, sizzling revs aren't necessary to keep
up a blistering pace.
When testing too, our fastest 0 - 100 time of 12.43 s came from shifting
up early
nearer 4,000 rpm, when torque starts to trail off, rather than at the 5,000 rpm
redline.
It swapped cogs smoothly but while playing with the new paddle shifters in manual mode the automatic version changed
up automatically when
nearing redline.