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Originally Posted by olrocker
Kinda blows my mind that anyone who’s ever bought a car with CAGS since it debuted in the C4 ZR1 would actually “accept” it.
It ain’t like it’s in a Toyota Prius who’s very reason for existence is to economize every drop of fuel as long as it can possibly go
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Egadz, even the Dodge Viper had it.
And it's even goofier than being a gas mileage thing, though someone chime in if I heard it wrong. . . . it's to exploit a specific case/situation in the way the EPA performs its test ritual on a manual car. . . . the tester has to 'bog' out the engine in an area where a real user would be doing something else anyway.
It reminded me of the scandals of how late-'90s graphics cards and their drivers were designed to detect - and cheat on - the performance benchmark tests.
When you search youtube, I *can* find videos describing the bizarre secret-handshake, neutral-switch, or 'accelerate out' tips. What I can't find is anyone doing a 'with/without' skip-shift test for fuel mileage. A difference between the 2 outside of the aforementioned test probably does not exist.
Also, while obviously there are plenty who don't want to crawl under their car to disable skip-shift, I can't imagine any sentient being crawling under their car to *re-enable* skip shift.