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      03-30-2026, 01:27 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by RM7 View Post
I frickin love rev matching. Sure, I would do it myself in my WRX, but in the Camaro, it's brilliant, especially for autoX racing against automatics for that downshift to 1st...which you'll never shit "as fast as", but pretty damn close. The no-lift-shift is also a blast...but so limited for me in when I can use it, since 1st goes to 55 and 2nd goes beyond 80, you are well into illegal speed off a track. There is no launch control for me when all the nannies are off though and IMO you get plenty of fun out of a car with them off...to make up for any "too controlled" stuff.
You may be on to me. Maybe I gave it a bad rap because I have never manually shifted a vehicle with rev matching. It just felt super strange, because when coming to a stop, I like to put the transmission in neutral and have the car coast to a stop. But now putting it into neutral, the engine is still revving. Just felt off to me.
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