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Thats funny cause my right foot does the same thing....for free!
Speaking of miraculous driving aids, here’s one we weren’t expecting. If you order the Sport package, the manual trans is fitted with the aforementioned SynchroRev Match, which blips the throttle during downshifts. We did some patent searches and believe this electronic boon to be a first on a wholly manual transmission. Upon hearing about it, we warned Nissan that our old-fashioned heel-and-toeing was pure Nureyev—no electronic wet nurses for us. We were wrong. Our own dance steps matched revs accurately about 80 percent of the time. Nissan’s electronic shoes matched revs 100 percent of the time. And you can’t fool the thing. A downshift from fifth to second that requires 4500 immediate revs? No problem. That tricky 10-mph downshift from second to first on a cold morning? Piece of cake. Enter a turn so fast that your whole focus is on braking and steering? Let Nissan manage the blipping. If you still think you can do better, you can deactivate it. But those creamy downshifts add so greatly to the car’s prescient interaction with the driver that we bet you won’t.
For those of you who say your foot can do this for free, may want to read what Car and Driver had to say about the feature.
Ever seen them drive? Maybe its just me but if I'm only 80% at rev-matching I may want to get more practice. Its a neat feature but in the end only makes drive that much less of a talent and more an arcade.
Rev matching isn't the hard part. It's rev matching while braking at the same time.
ya...practice makes perfect.
Driver aids are exactly that. Aids. Not necessities.
