Have you tried double tapping the gas pedal?

[Twizzty]

This is well known in the S550 community and absolutely works on both platforms with the A10. I had to play with the timing of the press, release, and press again to get it just right. When you get the timing down perfect the car takes off like it's been rear ended by a train as it just drops to the lowest available gear and accelerates hard. It's the equivalent of brake boosting a turbo car for those hard rolling launches when you get it right.

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[Starship Enterprise]

I went from a 2006 GT to this 2025, and it was like going from the Flintstone mobile to a high tech spaceship. There is a staggering amount of tech features that are new to me....lol.

 

[Aggie1999]

My sales guy told me about it on my test drive.

 

[davidsteele1975]

My sales guy told me about it on my test drive.

That's good to know...

 

[UK-DH]

Did the double tap in my DH just and it certainly drops a few gears

 

[Arthonon]

This is well known in the S550 community and absolutely works on both platforms with the A10. I had to play with the timing of the press, release, and press again to get it just right. When you get the timing down perfect the car takes off like it's been rear ended by a train as it just drops to the lowest available gear and accelerates hard. It's the equivalent of brake boosting a turbo car for those hard rolling launches when you get it right.

Yep, I have a 2018 S550 and have been using it for years. I wasn't sure if it carried over to the S650 though. It's handy for passing and things, but since I have paddles, I often just use those instead.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

I tried it this morning. Its a bit inconsistent. If youre just coasting and tap it twice nothing happens. You have to already be in the pedal some for this to work. While already giving it some pedal if you pump it twice mine would drop anywhere from two to five gears. Usually just two or three.

Honestly im not sure how I feel about this. You'd have to train yourself to use this effectively. The only obvious benefit to me is that is doesnt hold the gear for 5 seconds like when using the paddles.

 

[Dark Sprite]

I think you’ve nailed the benefit there AZ - it gives you a temporary manual-like downshift without holding onto the gear for too long afterwards.

And thank you for pointing out it doesn’t work whilst coasting, I was wondering why it was inconsistently working but that would explain it. The rest is, I think, just learning how far and for how long to push the throttle to activate it.

I have noticed though that one firm push and lift off drops enough gears for an overtake, if you want to drop as many gears as the double tap does you may as well just floor the pedal straight off the bat - why wait (unless you have a whipple and can’t do that and remain in control!).

 

[Starship Enterprise]

I tried it this morning. Its a bit inconsistent. If youre just coasting and tap it twice nothing happens. You have to already be in the pedal some for this to work. While already giving it some pedal if you pump it twice mine would drop anywhere from two to five gears. Usually just two or three.

Honestly im not sure how I feel about this. You'd have to train yourself to use this effectively. The only obvious benefit to me is that is doesnt hold the gear for 5 seconds like when using the paddles.

It's an odd feature for sure!

A quick double stab got a gear kickdown for me from a steady cruise. But rereading you said from coasting, so I guess you are saying it won't kick down if the foot is off the pedal to start with?

I agree, it seems it's best feature is not being stuck in paddle mode if you want to kick down a few gears, yet don't want to have to give it more throttle than you wanted.

My mind is boggled that so few people here knew this (as well as me until 2 days ago). I really hesitated to post this thread because, I thought no way, I have to be the last person to know this...lol. I really braced myself for a ton of "Who doesn't know that"? replies...lol.

 

[davidsteele1975]

I have an EcoBoost, so I don't have paddles, a manual, four cylinders... And arguably less of a reason to use the feature except it offers me something between that gentle prod to shift down love gear, or the full on drop down five gears kickdown, or the shuffle to switch to Sport Mode... Yes it'll require training my feet but I'm all for discovery.

 

[Dark Sprite]

It's an odd feature for sure!

A quick double stab got a gear kickdown for me from a steady cruise. But rereading you said from coasting, so I guess you are saying it won't kick down if the foot is off the pedal to start with?

I agree, it seems it's best feature is not being stuck in paddle mode if you want to kick down a few gears, yet don't want to have to give it more throttle than you wanted.

My mind is boggled that so few people here knew this (as well as me until 2 days ago). I really hesitated to post this thread because, I thought no way, I have to be the last person to know this...lol. I really braced myself for a ton of "Who doesn't know that"? replies...lol.

Just imagine what else we don’t know because someone was worried about posting it Maybe there’s a hidden ejector seat button, or flame exhaust

 

[Ninjak]

This is interesting. I have a MAN pedal in my DH, so there's that, but my BRaptor.......

I wonder if it will work in the BRaptor....now I need to find out! I never had a reason to double-tap the go pedal, and I have used the paddles here and there, but this may be fun in sport mode.

 

[LouG]

I tried it too, it's great idea. Gently accelerating out of a corner it dropped 2 gears for the hill that was coming up. No big drama just a few more revs for the climb.
I've never heard of a feature like this in an auto trans. Someone in the design team is a real driver.
Good job Mr Enterprise. Have you found warp drive yet?

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