does the car automatically upshift when redlined in sportshift mode?

 

Nope, I don't think so. Besides, 00 & up will automaticly shift from 1-> 2.

 

1->2 yes. any other gear no.

 

only in first will it shift. any other gear it will stay there and bounce off the revlimiter

 

only the 99TL doesnt upshift automatically in any of the gears

 

and if you want to hold first ie. at the track, use gate shifting, putting it in 1 will keep it there

 

Mine does not automatically shift

 

03 will shift for you if you come close to red line and if you downshift with to many rpms it will choose the right gear for you , kinda like an auto red liner . kinda sucks. 03 type s

 

just checking...i have a few skeptical cousins and friends that think M3's are the cars with the superior SMG transmission--the only ones that won't upshift when redlined...I was like..the TL doesn't either..they were like..ya right.

 

the ferrari is the best smg in the world, not bmw

the only gear that the 00-03 TL will shift automaticly from is first. the 99 didnt and the TSX doesnt

 

What is GATE SHIFTING?????

 

manually shifting from D1 to D2 to D3 and so forth....

 

so the design of our sportshift is similar to the SMG concept of manually shifting gears--except ours shifts up/down between 1-2...good..I can feel confident driving the TL around saying it won't upshift...those skeptics. My cousin was bragging about being able to shift--I was like our TL does it too--he was well it must upshift when you redline--I was like no it doesn't--he just gave me a little look of disbelief.

 

So if i put my gear all the way down to D1 will i start faster? like do i just keep switching up as it redlines? elaborate for me alittle more please..

 

gate shifting is pretty much for drag racing. it will allow you to hold 1st gear that little bit longer (SS and auto tend to shift a lil early) once to redline (before the rev limiter kicks in) just slide it to the next gear.

 

From first to second, yeah, it will shift for you. But not just when it comes close to redline; it will shift at any RPM depending on throttle input and speed.

Any other gears, it won't upshift. You will just sit there banging off the rev limiter.





The 1st and 2nd generation SMG were based on an automatic type transmission, but the 3rd generation SMG (as found in the newer M cars) was conceived and engineered as an SMG unit from the beginning. First and second gears are placed in the strongest part of the transmission and other gears distributed accordingly, and so it has a really weird shift pattern. You would go insane shifting that manually. But the computer won't. It can precisely perform shifts in 65 milliseconds. On the new M6 and M5, I believe it has like 7 different shift maps.

Bottom line is, our SportShift is prehistoric compared to the SMG, DSG, etc. These units actually have clutches that are operated by the computer; with our system, you're just overriding the shift commands.

And like Kris said, BMW's SMG has nothing on the Ferrari F1 transmission. Engineered by Magnetti Marelli, it is basically the same (but differently tuned) unit as Formula-1 cars (yeah, the one that Michael Schumacher drives).

 

 

But you don't have to let your cousin know that. Just let him think that our TL's sportshift is just like his SMG. No offense, but he sounds like he needs to take his BMW attitude and.....

 

Well, I'm not the one with the BMW cousin, but I hear ya... I would hate to generalize, but a lot of BMW drivers do have that attitude...

 

 

i hear the new BMW's SMG tranny can shift faster than a person could shift manually, so if you bought a M3 SMG u can outrun a manual M3

 

I swear , I put mine in (03tlts) sport shift and if you wot it will 1-2 yes and if yuo keep it wot it will do it again 2-3 and so on didnot try 3-4 because already well into the 100mph i let off in 3rd try it , this is in a o3 types , if you dont beleave try in 2003 type s only not 01' 02' but only a 03'

 

doit all the time only time revelimter kicks in is in nuetral. its even in my manuel o3' type s ,,
why would i lie ,

 

 

sport shift only , thats what im talking about, not gate shift . sport shift will not let you screw up the engine it will shift for you if your to close to red line do it all the time guy's 1-2 , 2-3 , 3- 4 and so on....