While Racing, u prefer Manual or Auto shift
 

Anyone here use manual shifting, how and when???? I drive stick shift, but I am not so comfortable with the manual shifting seems like does not work well when you don't anything to step on at the left foot.

SMG :thumbup:

LOL.. who are you racing?? geo metro's and
gremlins?? haha

I use manual shifting on my X5 90% of the time. I 'grew up' driving manual transmission and find the manual shifting of the X much more natural to me. It also gives direct control over which gear the car is on and consequently more control of the car. I will put it on fully automatic only when stucked in a traffic jam. A big advantage of gearing down without reducing speed (unlike with an automatic) is an increase in power from the engine, useful when climbing, passing or before entering a sharp curve. For example if I am driving a little bit 'sporty' mode on a little empty back road I shift down just before entering a sharp curve so as to get more control of the car via its engine power.

Excuse me Alpac but where are you from again :) , just kidding! but I can tell just from reading your post that it's the European driving school kicking ;) . I totally agree with you, I fell unstoppable when i have the manual trans on the X.

ummmm :confused: :whistle:

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Don't you think that the manual mode is too low when you are going down from gear es: from 4° to 3° and so on?
And it doesn't give you the exactly sesation of the gear running in that moment? I have this sensation, so I don't like it and I use sport mode. Can you confirm me this?

Not sure what you exactly mean by 'too low'. I do like the manual mode and find it to suit my style of driving well. It is not exactly like a manual transmission though and there is a period of adaption but it is much better than the automatic, either normal or sport in my opinion. In addition I am sure it helps preserving the brakes. I did 28k miles since I bought my x5 and at the last check 2 weeks ago the pads looked still very good.

Sorry, I would say "too slow" and I have the sensation that I don't know exactly when one gear is on. I have continuous slipping of the rpm (I have a 3.0d model) that demotivate me to use it (expecially going up in the mountain).