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I don't know of a lot of F1/automatic gear cars being involved in steep terrain where the engine braking scenario would come into its own.

• detaro 10y ago
  The grandpartent comment clearly says "or running a car race" as another example. That said, I see no reason why a (semi-)automatic couldn't engine brake.
  • zdkl 10y ago
    I understand, my point was that manual shift cars are used in every discipline where such things matter like rally driving afaik
    • pjmlp 10y ago
      You mean like WRC? Better update yourself. The Subaru Impreza WRC2004 gearbox does a gear change in 0.05s vs 1s taken by the best manual ones. http://m.crash.net/wrc/feature/112516/1/technical-talk-semiautomatic-gearboxes.html http://m.crash.net/wrc/feature/112516/1/technical-talk-semia... Do you know any WRC driver able to beat that?
  • pif 10y ago
    > I see no reason why a (semi-)automatic couldn't engine brake. The semi surely can. The full automatic, I don't know. How can the car understand that you want a lower gear before you touch the brake?