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Old May 16, 2018 | 08:07 PM
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Launching manual C5 advice saysi use Competition mode. C6, turn off traction control. So why not competition mode for C6? Inquiring minds what to know!
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For as far as I'm aware competition mode is not the same thing between C5 and C6. The C5 modes are On, Traction Control off (competition mode), and Off. For the C6 it is On, Traction Control off, less restrictive stability control (competition mode), and off. Traction control off in the C6 is effectively the same as Competition mode for the C5.
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Thank you very much for that. I was wondering.

Actually, it didn’t seem to make much difference the day my son, in his spanking new Challenger RT (equipped with that newfangled automatic drive) went out for some excercise (on a closed course certainly!). In the either case, my 11 year old C6, “burdened” by my old fashioned stir stick, walked away. But as I said to him later, it sure sounded nice, while he was within ear shot that is.


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For as far as I'm aware competition mode is not the same thing between C5 and C6. The C5 modes are On, Traction Control off (competition mode), and Off. For the C6 it is On, Traction Control off, less restrictive stability control (competition mode), and off. Traction control off in the C6 is effectively the same as Competition mode for the C5.

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