When you downshift, it uses the ABS sensors to read the speed of the tires, compares that data to the speed of the engine and the gear being selected, and then actuates the electronic throttle to bring the revs up to the appropriate level. It does all that faster than a human driver could, guaranteeing perfectly rev-matched downshifts every time. This means that, as long as you know how to drive a stick, you’ll look like and sound a heroic racecar driver every time you get behind the wheel.
So what do you think? I like the challenge of heal toe, but man I’d love to have the option to just let the car do it for me so I could concentrate more on proper braking. Nissan gives you the best of both worlds because you can disable the feature with the press of a button. In this day of silly flappy paddle transmissions, bluetooth, ipods, homelinks, idrives and all the other garbage “advances” it’s nice to see someone add a cool new feature to the traditional manual that “drivers” can enjoy.
It’s pretty cool IMO. I just don’t know if I see it being entirely useful. As soon as I see one on a dealer lot though, I am gonna test drive it. If I swing up in the Z they will probably be willing to let me test drive.
I’m not sure why so many people are comparing this to the GT-R’s launch control, unless they just like bandwagon gayness.
Let’s see, launch control on a high HP AWD car. So it lets me rev it up and dump the clutch, with all that traction of AWD sending god only knows how much impact into the transmission and driveline. Yeah, that sounds pretty bad for the car.
Rev matching. It blips the throttle on a downshift so the downshift is as smooth as silk. No driveline shock like you would get with a traditional downshift without revmatching. Sounds better for the car than NOT doing it.
Let’s stick to the discussion of this feature and not drag the GT-R wars into another thread.
