It's pretty sad that the tiptronic in the xfire is 10x WORSE than the autostick in my dodge stratus. If I tell it to shift, it shifts. If I put the car manually in 3rd gear, under no cirumstances (except at redline) will the car upshift for me. This piece of crap upshifts on it's own, even when I manually specify a gear, it wont shift properly at redline, and its extremely slow when I do tell it to shift. IT BLOWS.

But back on topic, 6500 rpm cant be normal. What is the manufacturer specified redline on this car? I read 6,200 somewhere, 5,800 elsewhere. So which is it?