Looks like great fun David
Would love to do that myself some day.
There's something remarkably impressive about the sight of a D2 S8 on a race track. While it's certainly no Ferrari or Lambo, it has a presence and elegance to match any grand tourer, in my opinion.
But maybe I'm just biased ...
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Originally Posted by David's8
Like how using the tiptronic buttons on the wheel is so much better than leaving it in auto sport. Whilst the box is OK in general use, it cannot anticipate a climbing curve.
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When I'm driving 'enthusiastically', I usually keep it in sport mode most of the time and use the tiptronic buttons to down-shift earlier into the bends, to give me a little engine-braking going in and to put me in the right gear for pulling back out of the bend. The rest of the time I find the TCU doesn't do a bad job of selecting the right gear (assuming it's in sport mode) although, as you say, there are some things it can't anticipate, such as a climbing bend.
One feature I would like to have on the tiptronic system is a way to go back to 'S' immediately after using the buttons to override the automatically selected gear. Other than to wait 30 seconds (or however long it is before it goes back to 'S' on its own), the only way I have found to force it back is to move the selector (eg into D and back to S, or to +/- mode and back). It would be nice to be able to 'resume' automatic gear selection with a single button press.