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I didn't realise sports mode would downshift upon moving the lever over to the left
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Well on my 2012 XC70 it doesn't. I wish it did as "sports" driving is about having the car in the right gear for an impending manoeuvrer. On my Geartronic when you push the lever left the car continues to career along in a high gear unless you nudge the manual change. If you apply the brakes and reduce the raod speed the gearbox catches up but is reactive and not proactive. You cannot get the "Sports" mode to make forced down changes at all, you have to use the manual system to do that. Frankly I was disappointed as my previous cars had ZF auto boxes which always dropped one gear, whatever gear they were in, when you pressed the "Sports" button and I came to adopt that as a driving technique. I've mentioned this before and had others say that their Geartronic box drops down a gear when you put it in sports mode but for sure mine doesn't