Hi,
My 1st post so please be gentle...
The misses has recently bought a SLK 200 Auto. This is her 1st Auto and it has improved her driving no end (I probably don't need to explain why).
I noticed that there is an option to drive the car in a sort of manual way by pushing the 'gear stick' left and right.
Is it possible to get more performance using this semi manual method rather than letting the auto sort it out for you?
I noticed that the 0-62mph figures for the manual verses auto are very similar 7.6sec manual, 7.9sec auto. I guess the auto is optimised for the auto gearbox, so I wonder if would be actually slower using the semi manual method?
I also wondered if the semi manual method is there to get you out of difficult situations such as icy inclines?
Any thoughts, thanks.
My 1st post so please be gentle...
The misses has recently bought a SLK 200 Auto. This is her 1st Auto and it has improved her driving no end (I probably don't need to explain why).
I noticed that there is an option to drive the car in a sort of manual way by pushing the 'gear stick' left and right.
Is it possible to get more performance using this semi manual method rather than letting the auto sort it out for you?
I noticed that the 0-62mph figures for the manual verses auto are very similar 7.6sec manual, 7.9sec auto. I guess the auto is optimised for the auto gearbox, so I wonder if would be actually slower using the semi manual method?
I also wondered if the semi manual method is there to get you out of difficult situations such as icy inclines?
Any thoughts, thanks.