one other observation, i'm not sure if this has happened to anyone else, but when cruising at 55mph or so and then flooring it, i couldn't get it to shift down 2 gears (on an automatic, of course); i had to resort to the stick part of the auto-stick and do manually which is a little annoying with an auto-stick (two twitches). that's another reason i stated above that it is really only good for the initial take off.