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      03-28-2021, 06:11 AM   #1
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Sport + with sport throttle map WOULD be favourite.
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      04-01-2021, 11:57 AM   #3
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Sport is what I drive around town in most of the time. Comfort on the freeway- prefer the lower drone and lower ASD at 3k rpm. I actually like ASD in this car so haven’t been interested in coding it off just to use cruise control in sport.
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I drive mostly in Traction Mode

Sport Plus if I want to destroy my rear tires (J/K=)
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80% sport around town
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It's either parked, or in Sport +.

There's no in between.
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I've never used any mode but sport+
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      04-01-2021, 04:20 PM   #8
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Sport + the vast majority of the time, except for comfort driving up my hill late at night when I don't need the turbo singing for my neighbors and when driving around police.

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      04-01-2021, 07:11 PM   #9
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DSC and TC serve only to frustrate me.

If I had it my way it'd be...

Sport throttle response
Sport+ valves always open
DSC/TC OFF
Rev-match on
Traction mode burbles on

This is impossible, of course, so I just drive in Sport.
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      04-01-2021, 07:15 PM   #10
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People drive in something other than Sport+?

To me, Sport+ feels like the natural characteristic of the car. Everything else feels like you are trying to water it down.
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Sport+ throttle is too twitchy and I don't like the burbles all that much...
Sport is what I drive around in
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People drive in something other than Sport+?

To me, Sport+ feels like the natural characteristic of the car. Everything else feels like you are trying to water it down.
To me SportPlus is for when I mean business

Traction allows me to be an understated hooligan, allowing as much slip as possible without being stupid
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Comfort 2000rpm everywhere😁
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Comfort until I warm up then sport+ for everything outside the neighborhood, don't want to be that asshole popping around random families
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Sport+ throttle is too twitchy...
That's the main reason I don't drive in Sport+. The other is the fact that TC is off but DSC is still on, so the car lets go a bit, then promptly snaps back hard. What a waste. Sport has much smoother transitions.
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I find Sport+ a lot more fun when used sparingly. If I didn’t daily drive the car I’d use it 100% of the time, but with the miles I put on it’s nice to switch into Sport + and feel the car come alive when you’re in it just to have fun.
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Sport +, MDM and steering in sport. I use paddles unless I'm in cruise control. If I don't have cruise control on it's always paddles
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Sport + at all times but idling for a couple of mins in Comfort mode for enhanced warm up.

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Sport+ throttle is too twitchy...
That's the main reason I don't drive in Sport+. The other is the fact that TC is off but DSC is still on, so the car lets go a bit, then promptly snaps back hard. What a waste. Sport has much smoother transitions.
DSC off shows you what the car is really capable of and how much power it's trying to put down, traction on makes the car too numb. I didn't drive with DSC off for the first few hundred miles, now that I've tried it I don't know why is didn't sooner
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Sport all the time except when I'm in built-up areas when I use Traction so as to make as much noise as possible with my mufflerless pipes.
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DSC off shows you what the car is really capable of and how much power it's trying to put down, traction on makes the car too numb. I didn't drive with DSC off for the first few hundred miles, now that I've tried it I don't know why is didn't sooner
Yes, of course. All I'm saying is that half-nanny is worse than full-nanny. Of course, no-nanny is the best, but then there is no rev-match, which I have come to adore.
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