Michael_vroomvroom
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Just got my 2020 Mustang. My very first time I've bought a car I actually want, rather than just the cheapest that "would do", so everything's great of course, but I wonder what other manual transmission guys think of the rev matching feature. The first few hours (long drive home) I thought it seemed interesting and somewhat nice, but now I'm starting to change my opinion. Perhaps I'm using it wrong?
I'm used to pretty aggressive downshifting on my motorbike (Honda's "super sport" fireblade model. Something like the motorbike equivalent of the "super car" term for those who don't care about bikes) while on the road. No automatic rev matching there, at least not on my old model, so depending on whether I'm downshifting to slow down as I'm getting off the highway, or downshifting to accelerate, I'll either blip the throttle by a little or by a lot.
I'm still babysitting my Mustang and keeping the rpm's low until I've reached 1600km/1000 miles, so the only downshifts where I feel the rev matching kicking in are when I want to slow down. E.g., downshifting from second gear to first gear as traffic is slowing. This however creates a rather impolite "vrooom" sound in the milliseconds between me disengaging the clutch and downshifting, and me engaging the clutch again.
While the clutch is disengaged as I'm downshifting, the computer obviously does a rev match in preparation for me re-engaging the clutch in the lower gear, and increases rpm by some five hundred or a thousand (at least for now, as I'm still breaking her in), which everyone around the car can hear quite well. This makes me feel a bit like those clowns on motorbikes that like to rev their engines for no good reason in the city center, annoying everyone around.
Basically it feels like this feature is something that would work well for downshifting to accelerate (which I have not tried yet), but I'm more dubious about the usability of it regarding downshifting for slowing down. On the bike I usually do some limited rev matching while downshifting to slowdown, but to a much lesser extent than the Mustang's computer, and I do the matching while releasing the clutch, so the sound effect is much less pronounced.
Being a Mustang newbie (and a newbie regarding anything but "whatever is cheapest" cars in general) I'm interested in hearing more knowledgeable peoples opinion on this feature. I guess it reduces wear on the clutch a little bit, , but I don't like the free spinning increase in revs as it makes me feel as one of the aforementioned idiots on bikes.
I'm used to pretty aggressive downshifting on my motorbike (Honda's "super sport" fireblade model. Something like the motorbike equivalent of the "super car" term for those who don't care about bikes) while on the road. No automatic rev matching there, at least not on my old model, so depending on whether I'm downshifting to slow down as I'm getting off the highway, or downshifting to accelerate, I'll either blip the throttle by a little or by a lot.
I'm still babysitting my Mustang and keeping the rpm's low until I've reached 1600km/1000 miles, so the only downshifts where I feel the rev matching kicking in are when I want to slow down. E.g., downshifting from second gear to first gear as traffic is slowing. This however creates a rather impolite "vrooom" sound in the milliseconds between me disengaging the clutch and downshifting, and me engaging the clutch again.
While the clutch is disengaged as I'm downshifting, the computer obviously does a rev match in preparation for me re-engaging the clutch in the lower gear, and increases rpm by some five hundred or a thousand (at least for now, as I'm still breaking her in), which everyone around the car can hear quite well. This makes me feel a bit like those clowns on motorbikes that like to rev their engines for no good reason in the city center, annoying everyone around.
Basically it feels like this feature is something that would work well for downshifting to accelerate (which I have not tried yet), but I'm more dubious about the usability of it regarding downshifting for slowing down. On the bike I usually do some limited rev matching while downshifting to slowdown, but to a much lesser extent than the Mustang's computer, and I do the matching while releasing the clutch, so the sound effect is much less pronounced.
Being a Mustang newbie (and a newbie regarding anything but "whatever is cheapest" cars in general) I'm interested in hearing more knowledgeable peoples opinion on this feature. I guess it reduces wear on the clutch a little bit, , but I don't like the free spinning increase in revs as it makes me feel as one of the aforementioned idiots on bikes.
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