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Originally posted by Rippley
The Merc just has a crappy 'box. It seems like the kickdown only works when it feels like it, not when I eant it. And there's quite a great deal of lag, so you floor it...and then you sit around for a while (1-1 1/2 sesc.)...and then it boots you in the ass and takes off.
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Sounds just like the S430 I drove.
I've noticed that the more high-tech an automatic tranny is, the worse it behaves. Old cars with hydraulically controlled transmissions seemed to know how to behave. Get on the gas a little, it drops a gear. Floor it, it drops 2 gears. Simple.
With the newer electronic pieces of crap, it's anyone's guess. Get on it a little and maybe it downshifts by one gear, maybe two. Or sometimes it gets creative and decides to just lock up the torque converter and bog the engine instead. You never know!
And I really love it when you floor it and it kicks down one gear for a second or two, then drops another gear and stays there for about 0.2 seconds before redlining and upshifting again.