Official Owner and Driver of '07 RDX!
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Official Owner and Driver of '07 RDX!
I'm thrilled. I got lots of insight from this forum and appreciate everyone's posts, information and thoughts.
After visiting dealers in other areas, as well as considering many other makes, I finaly bought from Crown Acura.
The car is good, low mileage, and in excellent condition. They put on new Michelins and gave me a new Navigation CD. It's a certified car until 2012, so i have a couple of good years ahead.
I've had my friend the BMW mechanic's approval, and have spent some time learning the Bluetooth and the Nav system. Well, starting to learn. I have a limit to how much I can learn in a day!
BTW, it's a BIG MF. I thought it was Matrix size.
Hahah.
After visiting dealers in other areas, as well as considering many other makes, I finaly bought from Crown Acura.
The car is good, low mileage, and in excellent condition. They put on new Michelins and gave me a new Navigation CD. It's a certified car until 2012, so i have a couple of good years ahead.
I've had my friend the BMW mechanic's approval, and have spent some time learning the Bluetooth and the Nav system. Well, starting to learn. I have a limit to how much I can learn in a day!
BTW, it's a BIG MF. I thought it was Matrix size.
Hahah.
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Congrats Phineasboggs...Enjoy the "S" mode... you can always switch from D to S if u ever want to speedup and drive aggresively :p... Also if you're going to use the paddle shift its more safe to do that on "D" mode IMO..... :p
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Hehe....'S' mode. What a waste of console space. Press the button and wait for the car to decide to shift. If you wait too long, it will shift anyway. It's a gimmick, and pretty darn useless if you ask me. This thing needs a proper stick with a clutch!
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gimmick? i dunno bout that - driving in S mode with VSA off is one hell of a ride, keeping it in 2nd or 3rd and pinned in the upper 5k range, its a completely different beast
when i use it, im actually glad there is a rev limiter built in, sometimes you just dont notice the RPMs and having too much fun hammering it, but not only that, i down shift a ton, a quick tap on the paddle delivers an almost immediate downshift
would a plain stick be better - obviously, but this is the closest thing to it, ive driven other paddle shifted cars and the RDX executes very crisp shifts compared to others, even against gated tip tronics. Its S mode is pretty aggressive letting you take each gear to rev limit, i havent noticed the car shift for me or a bump in gears but i also havent let it bump off the rev limiter consistently
when i use it, im actually glad there is a rev limiter built in, sometimes you just dont notice the RPMs and having too much fun hammering it, but not only that, i down shift a ton, a quick tap on the paddle delivers an almost immediate downshift
would a plain stick be better - obviously, but this is the closest thing to it, ive driven other paddle shifted cars and the RDX executes very crisp shifts compared to others, even against gated tip tronics. Its S mode is pretty aggressive letting you take each gear to rev limit, i havent noticed the car shift for me or a bump in gears but i also havent let it bump off the rev limiter consistently
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gimmick? i dunno bout that - driving in S mode with VSA off is one hell of a ride, keeping it in 2nd or 3rd and pinned in the upper 5k range, its a completely different beast
when i use it, im actually glad there is a rev limiter built in, sometimes you just dont notice the RPMs and having too much fun hammering it, but not only that, i down shift a ton, a quick tap on the paddle delivers an almost immediate downshift
would a plain stick be better - obviously, but this is the closest thing to it, ive driven other paddle shifted cars and the RDX executes very crisp shifts compared to others, even against gated tip tronics. Its S mode is pretty aggressive letting you take each gear to rev limit, i havent noticed the car shift for me or a bump in gears but i also havent let it bump off the rev limiter consistently
when i use it, im actually glad there is a rev limiter built in, sometimes you just dont notice the RPMs and having too much fun hammering it, but not only that, i down shift a ton, a quick tap on the paddle delivers an almost immediate downshift
would a plain stick be better - obviously, but this is the closest thing to it, ive driven other paddle shifted cars and the RDX executes very crisp shifts compared to others, even against gated tip tronics. Its S mode is pretty aggressive letting you take each gear to rev limit, i havent noticed the car shift for me or a bump in gears but i also havent let it bump off the rev limiter consistently
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gimmick? i dunno bout that - driving in S mode with VSA off is one hell of a ride, keeping it in 2nd or 3rd and pinned in the upper 5k range, its a completely different beast
when i use it, im actually glad there is a rev limiter built in, sometimes you just dont notice the RPMs and having too much fun hammering it, but not only that, i down shift a ton, a quick tap on the paddle delivers an almost immediate downshift
would a plain stick be better - obviously, but this is the closest thing to it, ive driven other paddle shifted cars and the RDX executes very crisp shifts compared to others, even against gated tip tronics. Its S mode is pretty aggressive letting you take each gear to rev limit, i havent noticed the car shift for me or a bump in gears but i also havent let it bump off the rev limiter consistently
when i use it, im actually glad there is a rev limiter built in, sometimes you just dont notice the RPMs and having too much fun hammering it, but not only that, i down shift a ton, a quick tap on the paddle delivers an almost immediate downshift
would a plain stick be better - obviously, but this is the closest thing to it, ive driven other paddle shifted cars and the RDX executes very crisp shifts compared to others, even against gated tip tronics. Its S mode is pretty aggressive letting you take each gear to rev limit, i havent noticed the car shift for me or a bump in gears but i also havent let it bump off the rev limiter consistently
You nailed it Mike. The "S" mode is the closest thing to pure stick. It holds the gears and shifts quick and tight. It is a blast when one is in the mood for some aggressive driving.
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That said, to each his own. I am well aware that this is just my opinion, and I'm apparently in the minority here.
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def not as good as a stick, but honestly cat, the car has not shifted out of gear for me i tried to get it to do it today, maybe im just not putting it in an extreme enough situation where the computer makes it get out of the current gear. It has obviously not allowed me to downshift or upshift depending on speed/rpm but other than those rare situations i find it to be a very open gear box, and ive watched the tach sit on the rev limit till i want to shift. When its not in S tho, the computer definitely takes over at some points either upshifting or downshifting when it needs to after i have downshifted or something
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def not as good as a stick, but honestly cat, the car has not shifted out of gear for me i tried to get it to do it today, maybe im just not putting it in an extreme enough situation where the computer makes it get out of the current gear. It has obviously not allowed me to downshift or upshift depending on speed/rpm but other than those rare situations i find it to be a very open gear box, and ive watched the tach sit on the rev limit till i want to shift. When its not in S tho, the computer definitely takes over at some points either upshifting or downshifting when it needs to after i have downshifted or something
Mike
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