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Originally posted by CivicSiRacer
I agree. Usually the automatic will shift faster than you shifting through the gears.
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Having an auto in my Civic, I would have to agree with that, BUT...
It's not entirely true, here's why. Say you are going down thew freeway and get behind a car going we'll say 60-65mph, and that's just too slow for your style, so you change over a lane to pass the slow car. There's quite a many of times I've experienced flooring the gas to accelerate past this slow car, and they tranny will lag for a good 3-4 seconds before downshifting automatically (I'm in D4 the entire time), and so you aren't able to make the pass as quickly as you could if you down shift manually into D3. Doing so will force the tranny to downshift when you want it to, instead of waiting for it to do it itself. Reasons for the lag in D4 I'm not certain of, but I'm assuming the car is maybe trying to match revs, or wait till it's at a certain ratio within a range that's good enough to drop down a gear? I duon't relly know, but I DO know that downshifting in a situation like that will allow you to shift faster than your car would by itself.
Still nothing as quick as a 5-speed manual I'll admit.
