Or use the petal shifters exclusively?

I have a car that is faster I never put in auto mode. but 99% of the time I drive the bentley I leave it in regular Drive mode..

What do you drive in?

and, Does this mean I am getting old?

 

We're all young at heart Jack!

I drive in auto, but there's a steep hill going up to our place that fools the CGT into staying in 4th at 1500 rpm... just enough to sound like the engine's laboring.

So I flick it down a gear and pretend I'm back at the Monte Carlo racetrack earlier this month (though that was in a taxi - a bit different than F1 I guess).

Otherwise, I can't improve on the change times at all, they are always perfect. And I love the change-up progression when I slow or brake!

(You have a car that is faster? What one's that?)

 

We will never admit to getting old on this Forum

I have toyed with the suspension modes and paddles but drive on auto/ normal most of the time. I have even asked myself why I should not use the comfort mode more often. Really, I'm not racing anyone or setting records getting to Knoxville. On the main road going the speed limit(sometimes) why do I really need to feel those bumps in the surface?????????

During my search for a car I was even told that I was not driving unless I was heel-toeing a car with a manual transmission. Maybe a GT3 or an R8 requires that kind of aggression but the ultra smooth, mac-daddy ride of the elegant Bentley does not need all that to be enjoyed.

Let the youngsters driving the Vette's on daddies money pull up and make noise. I will smile and add a mature nod and smoothly disappear.

Oh BTW I think the paddles are a tad slow.

 

Agreed, they are just a 'manual' automatic - unlike the clutch paddles I had on the Vanquish. But a lot of people express surprise when they see them, maybe expecting an old man's car

 

It has a horse on it and it is red... or rosso corsa.. No it is not a mustang. It's the other car that comes with a horse on it.


The paddle shifters on the bent are slower, but I have been having some fun messing around with it lately.

 

Yes nice toy paddles and the youngers like the car a lot more when they see them. Please then elaborate on the sport mode and manual modes. They now will worship you for having such a race car. If only we could deactivate the front wheel drive and smoke some rear tire we could be cool and young.

"Old mans car" of course it is check out the price tag and show me the twenty something with the means to purchase one. The same goes for the red car with the horse on it.

 

Oh, the Ford Pinto. Nice choice!

 

Ahh yes, i saw one of those in Bulgaria... or was it Slovenia? (see pic below)

 

Thanks.. I put 14's on it. and updated the 8 track to a record player.

Chicks dig when I pull out the Vinyl records.

 

I so totally groove those upgrades!

 

I drive in sport mode 99% of the time and never use the paddles

It's a totally different car in sport and I love it

 

Sport and dsc off and suspension full firm on my Supersports - always when dry. Car is transformed when in that mode.. Sport and firm only when wet.