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Originally Posted by clf
I find there is a massive lag when using kickdown, worse if lockup has been activated. Sometimes this lag is dangerous (eg when merging from short slip roads), so when on one of these roads, I will flick it into sport mode, and it holds the gear and gives immediate acceleration without the 'box thinking about what it needs to do. Kickdown is still available too, but I find it rarely is needed.
You should give it a try, I think you will be impressed at the difference. When selected, if cruising particularly with lockup active, the reaction is immediate.
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So yesterday going to my daughter's I've had another try in sport mode on the whole 50km (31 mls) journey which I hadn't used for a long while.
As everyone knows even you'd ask for cruise control, it can be activated only on request (set or resume) and de-activated when breaking or pushing on resuming. Hence I'm using the CC only on suitable portions of the journey, and not all of it like sport mode yesterday.
First of all - as you told - when pushing on 'RES' the reaction is impressive, immediate and even - if I may say so - a bit harsher than in eco mode.
But when reaching the wished speed - in my case 80km/h (50 mls) which is now the limit allowed on a large majority of roads and consequently a tad less than 2k revs - I swear that I'm back in top gear without the slightest difficulty.
Checking Torque Pro statistics on the whole journey (including the way back) it's obvious as expected that higher revs are used over 3k. With an auto box in eco mode and on 50 mls limited roads it looks nearly impossible to go faster than 3k revs but when doing a kick down.
Mind that among lots of short sections between 3k and 3.6k revs, I even went from 2350 revs at 81 km/h (50 mls) to 6410 revs at 103 km/h (64 mls) in 2 or 3 seconds!
But do notice it was on a bypass limited at 110 km/h (68.35 mls)!
EDIT: in the table above consumption figures are wrong. Torque Pro can't adapt itself easily to E85.
In the end I had a fuel-up: on 128.62 mls (207 km) I fiiled 24.60 litres which gives 23.77 mpg (11.88 l/100km) which looks rather good for a V6 2.5 because with full E85 you need around 20% (TBH between 20 and 25% according car, temperature, speed and lots of parameters) more fuel. Hence it's
at least the equivalent of around 28.5 mpg (9.9 l/100km) with 95E10, maybe a tad better. But my V6 2.5 is a special one with a few mods (derestricted air box, full derestricted SS exhaust line and a few other ones).
In the end TBH I don't actually need sport mode AND cruise control: CC is enough with some kicks downs when needed.
