2015 A8 Shift Responsiveness
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Instructor
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: San Diego CA
2015 A8 Shift Responsiveness
For those of you that have the A8 transmission in the 2015s how good is the paddle shifting? I have a C6 LS3 A6 and even with a tune it doesn't shift as fast as I would like it to.
I test drove a Challenger ScatPak with an A8 which is based on the ZF transmission and came away super impressed. It shifted right when I pulled the paddle no matter if I was full or partial throttle. I'm hoping the 2015's will be like that. If not I'll have to teach the wife how to drive a stick.
I test drove a Challenger ScatPak with an A8 which is based on the ZF transmission and came away super impressed. It shifted right when I pulled the paddle no matter if I was full or partial throttle. I'm hoping the 2015's will be like that. If not I'll have to teach the wife how to drive a stick.
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Hillsdale NJ
I've only had the car 10 days and the car is still in break-in mode and the transmission is still learning. But, so far, when you are driving easy it usually shifts pretty smoothly and when you are driving harder it definitely shifts faster. But I need to get another couple of hundred miles on the car before I can really evaluate it.
