Triptronic

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

i better stop reading this backwards and forwards crap. gotta drive my car soon my f**k up lol

[bubba]

A proper sequential setup is pull back to go up a gear and push forward to go down a gear.

[iamhe77]

A proper sequential setup is pull back to go up a gear and push forward to go down a gear.

Correct.

Just a shame a lot of car makers don't see it that way

[zei20l]

my wifes honda was wrong also, it shit me to tears because it actually shifted quite quickly!!

[STAG250]

It isn't a sports car, so don't pretend that it is.

it puts the rallye into rs though

nothing like the dirt n greasy conditions to bring out its sporty spice

[lachlanw]

can we have a vote tRiptronic v tiptronic . saying triptronic is major reason for name calling where i come from .although im sure nissan has its own name for it anyway

[STAG250]

triptronic sounds like a genre of electronic dance music

[STAG250]

from elsewhere

Tiptronic is the gear shifting system.

Triptonic is the Variable Cam (Valve Timing) System used by Porsche.

[nickcorr]

Correct.

Just a shame a lot of car makers don't see it that way

BMW used to be the wrong way around, push + pull -, but they saw the light several years ago and corrected it to push - pull +. Ford and Mazda have always been the correct way.

Stems back to Audi, who basically invented this, with Porsche, on the Tiptronic. Their mentality was that you push forward to change into first and the seed was sown.. They also knew that some people would not like that, so offered, as a cost option, gearshift buttons on the wheel...

It is a feature used to get people into auto's, who previously would only drive manuals. They still think that they have control. As transmissions get cleverer, with more and more gears (7 for merc, 8 for Lexus) there will be less and less convenitional manuals, with automated manuals, such as DSG, and very computer controlled autos, becoming the norm.