Originally Posted by wstar

That's brings up others features and quirks worth mentioning that aren't in this thread:

• You can multi-click the paddles before a shift completes and drop down (and presumably up? never tried) multiple gears much faster than waiting for each to complete.
• If you're driving in D-mode, the gear indicator on the dash just shows "D", so if you're not paying careful attention to every little gentle shift you won't know exactly which gear you're in, especially at low speeds/rpms/throttle.
• If D happens to be in gears 1-5, it generally stays in the same gear if you flip the control to M-mode. If D happens to be in 6 or 7, it downshifts to 5 when you flip the control to M-mode.
  
• You can also use the paddle shifters to temporarily change gears while in D-mode, and it will revert to full-auto after you leave them alone for a bit.
• You can defeat the auto-downshift from 7 -> 5 when switching D -> M at highway cruising speeds by clicking the upshift button first (which goes to temporary manual mode and stays in 7), and then moving the selector to M.

Note: I hardly ever use D-mode, so I could be slightly wrong on details there, but that's what I remember