Have you tried double tapping the gas pedal?

[Starship Enterprise]

I never knew this!

I saw on IG this morning where this guy showed that while driving a 7G A10 GT, if you double tap the gas pedal WITHOUT touching the paddles, it drops a few gears where just depressing it once to the same point only drops one gear or no gears. NO PADDLES were touched.

So I took it out today, and just in Drive I lightly double tapped the pedal and sure enough, it dropped a few gears!

To those who knew this...I did a search here and found no talk of this.

To those who might say "big deal, push the pedal down enough and you drop gears anyway"...it's not the same. The double tap drops the gears but the RPM's are lower. It literally drops a few gears without all the pedal travel needed.

(It's like the equivalent feel of blipping the paddle shifter down 3 times but this way, you are still locked in Drive and not Paddle Mode.)

I did try a double tap on the gas pedal a little further and the gear drop was a bit more aggressive. There IS a difference between this and just pushing the pedal down.

At the risk of snarky replies, I felt I had to share this because it's an interesting feature I didn't know about until today.

For those like me who didn't know this...try it and report back. There HAS to be a few of you here who didn't know the A10 did this!

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[canzaecho]

I've seen this on IG as well and didn't believe it. Your post definitely lends some credibility to the claim. I'll try mine next time.

Does the car surge forward any? Or just a 3-gear drop?

Does it show a lower gear on the dash?

The RPMs are lower? What do you mean? Going to lower gears should increase the rpms.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

I've seen this on IG as well and didn't believe it. Your post definitely lends some credibility to the claim. I'll try mine next time.

Does the car surge forward any? Or just a 3-gear drop?

Does it show a lower gear on the dash?

The RPMs are lower? What do you mean? Going to lower gears should increase the rpms.

1) It's a real thing! Can confirm! I couldn't believe it myself!

2) It's just a 2-3 gear drop...or more...(depending on how hard you double tap.). No unwanted surge. It drops the gears before the throttle reacts. It's crazy!

3) Driving the A10 in Automatic mode, I don't get a gear display. I only get a gear display when using paddles or in M.

4) RE: RPM's, what I meant was that to drop 3 gears with the gas pedal only, a single press would be further travel resulting in higher RPM's. With the double-tap of the accelerator, you don't have to press as far down to drop the 3 gears, resulting in lower RPM's in comparison to one deep single press.

 

[Zig]

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[Starship Enterprise]

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Ya know...that is quite possible! I would imagine if someone is aggressively feathering the throttle, he's dropping gears and not realizing it!

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