Hesitation off the line in sport mode normal?

[DejaVu]

Unless I manually select 1st gear early when rolling to a stop, I can easily find myself in that scenario where I'd *just* stopped (or come to a very slow roll) and when I decide to go, it will be just as the car has started to downshift to 1st on its own causing an extended delay followed by sudden giddy-up. Should be easy enough to reproduce and capture in a log to have a visual, and I'll see if I can grab that & post it up after work today.

If you stay in manual and select 2nd from a full stop, it will remain in 2nd for subsequent stops and avoids that issue.

I'll have to see if mine does that. I'm finding all kinds of weirdness.

Today I had a 15 min drive around town and tried playing around to come up with steps to duplicate. Here's a fun one. One a flat road at 45 MPH in Sport mode with no real load on the car it should be in fifth. Now, manually drop the car down to fourth. Let the car settle back automatically to 5th. Now floor it. Nothing happens on mine for at least a second. Now let the car slow down back to 45 and settle into fifth. Don't manually change gears or anything. Floor it. Car responds immediately. I can replicate that about 70% of the time.

You'd think that since in both scenarios the car is moving along at the same speed in the same gear you should get identical throttle response. The fact that manually overriding the auto causes the next shift to be wonky (most of the time) sure points to software stupidity to me (I happen to be a software developer).

I'd love for someone else to try that to see if it is just my car.

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