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Further Explanation of Manual/Auto Modes

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A Honda representative provides further details on the refined manual/automatic transmission system. He explains that while the dual-clutch transmission (DCT) system has been around for years, the integration with 'throttle by wire' in the 2026 model makes the operation more seamless and intuitive. Drivers can override automatic shifts with paddle shifters for specific situations (e.g., more power uphill), and the system will automatically return to full auto mode when manual inputs stop. This offers the best of both worlds without being locked into a single mode.

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So, and now it automatically just goes back into automatic mode. >> Sure. >> All right, guys. While I got Colin here, cuz Colin, you pretty much you know these things inside and out. >> Yeah, fair enough. >> So, explain to me if I'm understanding this correctly. It has a manual and an automatic transmission, but when you're in automatic, >> Mhm. >> you can you can pick whatever gear you want. You just hit the paddle shifters and she'll shift up, she'll shift down, and then when you get out of that situation, it goes back into automatic, I've noticed. >> Correct, yeah. >> So, it's like the best of both worlds. You're not really stuck in one mode or another. >> Yeah, so if you're like you're in automatic mode, right? You're coming up on a hill and you start to go up it and you're like, I just need to drop one gear to get a little more power. You can hit the downshift, you know, get up to the top of the hill and kind of once you mellow it out at the top, it reverts back and just keeps shifting as it would normally. >> Yeah, it did it all for me. So, it would do that upshifting or downshifting anywhere I wanted. So, it was like it was just I was like I could go into manual and just completely manually control the entire thing. >> Yep. >> Or I could just let go into automatic and let it do the entire thing by itself, but I realized that I didn't like some of the sounds I was hearing while I was driving. >> Sure. >> So, I just started playing with it and I'm like, holy crap. >> Yeah, I mean, we off we have the manual mode. Like you can put it in the manual and take full control, but most people just leave it in automatic and then kind of a control as they go. >> Right, that's the biggest part of it. >> new, too? >> No, we've had that for a number of years. So, that has really come in with the DCT system for quite a a time. >> Okay. Okay. >> But it just gets the system gets more refined every year as we go along. >> I've just never noticed it operate so flawlessly. >> Okay. All right. >> Yeah, I know. It's that's a huge factor. I mean, I love using it just because you don't have to then put it back into manual or automatic, right? You just you can tap it I downshift or upshift, either way. >> Yep. Yep.

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