Good question. I have accidentally downshifted when I meant to up shift. Almost hit redline but not quite. I was wondering if you could blow the engine that way? Fortunately I was not at a really high rpm when I did it. I just have to keep my hand off that left paddle when accelerating.

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[QUOTE=jhbchess;228959]Normal driving: Sport mode will shift for you if you bump red line (I let it do this at long, empty on-ramps all the time). Corsa will not shift for you, it will hit redline and bounce WAAAA-WAAA-WAAA (I have accidentally done this a few times in a low gear).

This has not been my experience. I've got an `07 (and had an `04) so "Sport" is the highest performance mode I've had available. I've hit the rev limiter in 1st. gear a few times (easy to do in first!) and the car does not shift by itself when it happens; the engine simply stops revving and the car goes WAAAA . You then instinctively let up on the gas and manually upshift. I can't believe that with the newer cars in "Corsa" the rev limiter would somehow be nullified. The rev limiter should be active no matter what the driving mode. It doesn't make sense to have one mode that would allow you to blow the engine.

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We are saying the same thing and it's the same as you describe in Corsa on newer models: You hit the redline and the limiter kicks in, the needle "bounces" and engine goes WAA WAA WAA. The needle doesn't continue to climb past the limit another 2000 RPMs until the engine explodes.

But in Sport mode [in the newer models that RussK is asking about], when you get to the redline, the car automatically upshifts for you INSTEAD of the RPMs cutting out and the needle bouncing and engine going WAAA WAAA WAAA.

When I wrote "hits redline" I meant the beginning of the redline range on the tach, not the end of it.

Again, that's not been my experience. I never drive in anything but Sport mode, and those few times I've hit the rev limiter, the car did not upshift by itself. I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining things.

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Nobody has suggested that your 2007 should upshift automatically for you in sport mode. We're talking about RussK's 2012 car, which does. And I was agreeing with you that CORSA mode (which is in the newer models) does not negate the rev limiter, nor does CORSA automatically upshift in the newer models the way SPORT mode upshifts in the newer models.

Yeah, ignore the fancy names of the modes... which have changed over time.

normal mode = auto-downshift to prevent stalls, auto-upshift to prevent rev limiter

sporty mode = no auto shifts, and your shifts become more crisp in the upper rev range

boring mode = auto-downshift to prevent stalls, and auto-upshifts at a medium rpm -- think tamed normal mode

slippery mode = to get you out of mud or snow -- relies on traction control and clutch slip -- to be avoided, really

In addition you got the ESP button, as well as "do a clutch drop, since I want to show off and launch it" mode.

On a similar note, I have no tired corsa yet, but in sport mode every time I shift gears it feels like the trans "chunks" ( but if I let go of the gas for a brief second while shifting it shifts smooth. Is this normal, or maybe is it cause the car hasn't been serviced really since new other than oil change (3x)

I was told it could be the fluids needing change. But in stard automatic it shifts fine except twice when it felt a little funny going from 2nd to 1st at low speed while slowing down.

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Start car. Put in corsa mode. Keep foot to the floor during shifts. Puts hair on your chest.

Lol! Mike I think that sums it up nicely!

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