In practice, stomping on the gas to fool the thing into thinking that the desired top end is somewhere around 90mph gets it through the process enough faster to not be actively dangerous, but aside from the not-really-remotely-funny time my attempt to regain my (lost by expiration date stupidity) license was denied because I 'kept gunning the engine' and made her drop her pen (Because of course that's more important than the risk to life and limb of doodling around in a lane of oncoming traffic), there's something more important wrong with doing that...

...it's tacky.

>Mm, yeah, it's an issue. I've noticed it when getting off the
>Interstate, where the not-very-tall gearing of the lower ratios in the
>Beetle means I really ought to shift out of first before I'm finished
>making the turn. I think that kind of thing is at least partially why
>the VW system has the paddles and the option to use the shift
>lever in Tiptronic mode. (I know the term "Tiptronic", as applied to
>a Volkswagen automatic gearshift lever that can do that, predates DSG,
>and I think also predates the appearance of wheel paddles in ordinary
>cars, so it's more that they just didn't get rid of that
>function when the paddles came in, but still, it's handy to have the
>option of either.)

The 1998 Prizm I drove from about '01 to '13, when I got the Subaru, had the same kind of gear ratio - turning out did mean shifting in the middle of the maneuver, but that only took one hand and about half a second, so it was perfectly manageable.

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