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I think the rationale is that you select S mode because you want exta oomph. Therefore 4th gear is a reasonable starting point for most situations. You need to bear in mind that S mode isn't a true 'manual' mode. It just allows you to specify the upper gear that the auto box can select. Consequently, its only use is when you want to select a lower gear than would be selected when in D. i.e. when you want to push the car that bit harder. To be honest, I can't say I've ever found a use for it. If I want extra power I just floor the throttle, and I mean floor it. There's an extra bit of travel at the bottom of the pedal range that requires you to push it down harder. That normally takes care of my extra power requirements when overtaking. Hi, I use manual mode to support brakes (downhill, traffic-lights, emergency braking). I expected that the driver uses manual mode to "influence" the gearbox - therefore I would expect that chanigng from auto to manual do not influence engaged gear.

Thank you for your reply - so it's normal (hmm - however, I would expect while changing from D to S, stay on the same gear) Funny thing is I noticed that after 1 and 1/2 year after running the car

Hi there! I came here to ask you for your experience (rather car behaviour) with your Lexus car (since, I am not able to understand whether my car behaviour is correct) I have Lexus IS250 MY08 Automatic gear + Luxury pack + MM. While driving in full auto-mode ('D') at any speed (and any automatically set gear) when I change to 'S' mode, the gearbox set all the time to 4th gear. For example, speed 130 km/h 6tf gear in 'D' mode - changing into 'S' mode -> 130 km/h 4th gear; or speed 20 km/h 2/3rd gear in 'D' mode - changing into 'S' mode -> 4th gear at 20km/h. Can you share your auto gearbox behaviour? Thank you in advance for your replies. Kind regards, pepO