I absolutely hate that my CVT vehicle has a 1-2-D-N-R shifter with “Overdrive Button” because Nissan thought faux gearing would sell better. It randomly decides I must secretly rather hit 4000rpm+ than continue accelerating at a vaguely reasonable pace, and I say randomly because there is no discernable consistency re: pedal position, etc. The worst regular automatic I ever used was more consistent.
To be clear, I find anything over 3000rpm unnecessary and annoying. At least in this vehicle, most of the time I can still accelerate faster than most other drivers without hitting that. Its like its trying to shame me for getting to the speed-limit quickly so I can settle-in to cruising without a truck up my ass… for a few precious seconds anyways.
I have a Subaru and have had the same complaint. Not being able to tell when it would “shift” made it so frustrating to drive because I would accelerate to turn out in traffic and sometimes it was fine and other times I would just rev up and go super slow at high RPM. Grrrr.
I absolutely hate that my CVT vehicle has a 1-2-D-N-R shifter with “Overdrive Button” because Nissan thought faux gearing would sell better. It randomly decides I must secretly rather hit 4000rpm+ than continue accelerating at a vaguely reasonable pace, and I say randomly because there is no discernable consistency re: pedal position, etc. The worst regular automatic I ever used was more consistent.
To be clear, I find anything over 3000rpm unnecessary and annoying. At least in this vehicle, most of the time I can still accelerate faster than most other drivers without hitting that. Its like its trying to shame me for getting to the speed-limit quickly so I can settle-in to cruising without a truck up my ass… for a few precious seconds anyways.
I have a Subaru and have had the same complaint. Not being able to tell when it would “shift” made it so frustrating to drive because I would accelerate to turn out in traffic and sometimes it was fine and other times I would just rev up and go super slow at high RPM. Grrrr.