[IggDawg]

All this talk of power mode... I think I've seen that power light like 3 times in the 3 or 4 weeks I've owned the car. I always manually downshift, so I don't end up mashing the throttle to downshift. I never stab at it to accelerate either. I find that "rolling on" the throttle is better for performance, as a few people have mentioned.

I don't see what the benefit of raising the shift points is either... it'll go all the way to 6500 unless I let off on the throttle. usually I have the gear selector in the gear I want to be in anyways. it's a habit I got into with my Impreza. I manually shift it by reflex now. keeping it in whatever the optimal gear for your speed is will keep the tranny heat down also, since the TC isn't spinning against itself very hard. just have to be careful to avoid engine braking since that does spike up the heat considerably.