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Controls in detail
Automatic transmission
Automatic transmission
For information on driving with an auto-
matic transmission, see "Automatic
transmission" ( page 66).
Your vehicles transmission adapts its
gear shifting process to your individual
driving style by continually adjusting the
shift points up or down. These shift point
adjustments are performed based on
current operating and driving condi-
tions.
If the operating conditions change, the
automatic transmission reacts by adjust-
ing its gear shift program.
Gearshift pattern for automatic transmission
The automatic transmission selects indi-
vidual gears automatically, depending
on:
the gear selector lever position D
(
page 188) with gear
ranges 4, 3, 2, 1 (
page 187)
the selected program mode (C/S)
(
page 189)
the position of the accelerator pedal
(
page 190)
the vehicle speed
1 Current gear range/gear selector le-
ver position
2 Current program mode
The current gear range/gear selector le-
ver position 1 and program mode 2
appear in the tachometer display.
i
During the brief warm-up the trans-
mission upshifting is delayed. This al-
lows the catalytic converter to heat
up more quickly to operating temper-
ature.
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