The trick with driving a auto is adaptation...
Drive it in the same manner consistantly and the car will pick up the style of driving.
When I was still driving the auto, when i full throttle, the car will definitly downshift one gear and when i do a kick down, the car will downshift to the lowest possible gear....
The diff with Sport mode or not is that when kick down button depressed, the car goes to lowest possible gear, revv to redline then change gear, but only when the button is keep on depreseed, which i think a lot of ppl dare not do... The moment u let go of the button, the car will go back to cruise and upshift when it think deems fit usless u have been driving aggresively for the last couple of day...
As for Sports mode, the car will upshift at redline when it realised that the pedal travel is brisk and as long as the pedal is depress considerably, the car will only change gear when redline
Although in the last tech talk, the german confimrs that S mode is nothing but to pull the car to redline, stretching the gear change point, we have confirm over many occasion that in a GTEC run, the car pulls a 0.1 to 0.2 sec faster than compared to D mode....
Lastly, for those not so aggresive driver who don normally redline their car, u will realised that even when ur car is in S mode, the car might not even redline and gear is changed as u r prob in the super economy mode of the adaptation value....
From my understanding, the car has got 6 adaptation mode for driving style. Think of it from 1 - 7 with 3 being neutral and 1 being super ku niang and 7 being hiong...
When u clear your adaptation, the car goes back to normal (3) and if u continuously drive in very lightly, the car will go into the economy mode (1) and move off the car from 2nd gear... The new 745 moves off in 3rd gear in this mode
For ppl who drive their car more aggresively, seeing the redline every one hour, the car will pick up the behavior and move to the more aggresive mode (7), changing gear more readily, allow the car to pull to redline before gear change without even going into the Sport mode...
On the later cars, where electronic throttle is used, the car will also pick up the pedal travel time and u will see that if u put ur foot briskly down, the car will take it that u r doing a overtaking manouver and drop to lowest gear even without having to pedal to metal. The advantage of this is response time but at the same time, there have been complains that the car changes gear erractically when driven by some lady who happens to be just stretching their legs hahahah !!!
Looks like I have a lot more to learn about bimmers...
