Originally Posted by Tazicon

^ I do beleive a big part of the way the cars shift is whats it's learned about your driving style. If your habits are babing it then thats what it expects. When you go out of the norm it freaks out. It really does learn your driving stlye. Our car is a weekend kind of car and so the wife rarely drives it at this point. She doesn't like to drive with me in the car.......... I really don't blame her. I tend to be on it alot and thats probably why it only gets around 15mpg in the city.

Originally Posted by The Jewbag

Why is everyone talking as if our paddle shifters are real paddle shifters? Its not a slushbox it's just a torque converter

Originally Posted by 2008G37s

I have been messing with the paddles as well as DS mode manually shifting with shifter and have come to the same conclusion every time. The manual shifting characteristics of this car are a joke. There is too much lag in shifting to properly estimate when the damn thing is gonna shift even with the paddles. When you hit a paddle it should shift right then and there...period...no lag, no waiting, no watching tach go beyond redline and it not shifting when wot are just bad points. When I drive a car hard I expect it to do what I tell it when I tell it. Whats the good are paddles when it dont shift when you want it to?

I was out tonight and decided to do a wot run from a stop up onto the freeway using paddles. I hit the paddle to upshift into 2nd at 6500 and it decided to finally shift after it began bouncing off the rev limiter at like 8K but only after I let off of it. Geezus it was ridiculous I had to actually let up on it to allow it to finally upshift. So I tried it in 2nd for a upshift to 3rd. Hit the paddle at 6800 and damn thing just kept on going to it bounced the rev limiter. When I glanced at tach it was at 8k and cutting out. So then I tired a couple downshifts with paddles. There the damn lag again. By the time I was halfway through the turn it was just downshifting and much too late.

My wife finally asked what the hell was the matter with the car and why it didnt shift better or when I wanted it to after I was swearing and laughing about it at the same time. I told her, well its your car so just leave it in drive and be happy. I'm glad I dont drive it all the time or I'd get rid of it cause blasting through back roads using paddles would be too inconstant for my liking and my driving ***** out with shift points not exactly where I want them and when I want them.
Infiniti really needs to work on a better shifting system.

I'm sorry but in my book the characteristics of this cars upshifting/downshifting with paddles are a friggin joke. But in all fairness I didnt buy this car for my wife with intentions of her using the paddles but to just drive it in auto and enjoy not having to shift manually. I thought though on occasions I drive it it might behave better then this. Sigh....

Originally Posted by ACoupe

You're not seriously comparing a $180,000+ dollar supercar to a luxury sport coupe are you?
Yeah, ideally, a Ferrari system that is based off their F1 technology would be awesome in our $50,000 dollar (in Canada) cars, but why not compare apples to apples here?
How does the Infiniti stack up against other vehicles that have the same type of transmission (not a DCT)?

Drive the thing in DS or full auto mode if it's so offensive. I enjoy driving it in manual mode, and whether or not it's a "joke", I don't have a supercar to compare it to so

Originally Posted by 1NEETO

You can't just say you have an F430 and not post pics of it! Post them up!

Originally Posted by HoustonG37S

ha. true! here you go