What you are describing is called "kickdown" been around for ages pretty much every auto car has it not just a german thing. Some have a "click" that you can feel as you demonstrate in the video. But any auto with full throttle will do the same thing, ie go down a gear so you can accelerate, you are giving it full throttle after all.
on some cars aswell, its there as a speed limiter bypass, my manual toyota had that as a way to break the self set speed limiter, but on my focus it had a kickdown instead of the limiter bypass
Yeah, pretty standard stuff. Even manuals have this. My C4 has it. When you press it beyond the first stage, you activate the over boost function of the turbo and you deactivate the speed limiter for an emergency overtake.
I'm 25 and I will say it is kinda weird the cars they decide to put it on (at least the clicky switch feel), my 16 Honda doesn't have it, my 17 Buick had it, my 99 Explorer doesn't, my 88 Bronco doesn't, my 02 Mercedes does. One thing I love to tell my friends (most of them my age or younger) is to try and find the highbeam switch on my Bronco 🤣
@@bettafish541 Surprisingly it's on the floor, threw me off when I first got it (I knew what it was, just thought it was phased out by then) I think they stopped doing it in 92 or 93 for the trucks
What you are describing is called "kickdown" been around for ages pretty much every auto car has it not just a german thing. Some have a "click" that you can feel as you demonstrate in the video. But any auto with full throttle will do the same thing, ie go down a gear so you can accelerate, you are giving it full throttle after all.
on some cars aswell, its there as a speed limiter bypass, my manual toyota had that as a way to break the self set speed limiter, but on my focus it had a kickdown instead of the limiter bypass
Yeah, pretty standard stuff.
Even manuals have this.
My C4 has it. When you press it beyond the first stage, you activate the over boost function of the turbo and you deactivate the speed limiter for an emergency overtake.
This car will only kickdown into first gear when using this switch at the bottom of the pedal.
lol, youth learns about kickdown. Soon will tell me about magnet tapes in a cassette and magnet tape in disk form.
I'm 25 and I will say it is kinda weird the cars they decide to put it on (at least the clicky switch feel), my 16 Honda doesn't have it, my 17 Buick had it, my 99 Explorer doesn't, my 88 Bronco doesn't, my 02 Mercedes does. One thing I love to tell my friends (most of them my age or younger) is to try and find the highbeam switch on my Bronco 🤣
@@adriankinkade116did it have the floor high beam switch or did ford stop doing that before then
@@bettafish541 Surprisingly it's on the floor, threw me off when I first got it (I knew what it was, just thought it was phased out by then) I think they stopped doing it in 92 or 93 for the trucks
It's a kickdown button, most German cars have this now and have since the 90's.
Pretty cool, now everyone is gonna run and check their car.
my kickdown is in my 99 mustang gt. pretty nice, but id prefer just a more quality automatic
this kind-of pedal i actually see a lot in hyundai sonatas from 2 body styles ago, its like a click at the end of the pedal
Audi’s have the same thing
jesus christ, this has been on cars with automatic transmissions since automatic transmissions were invented.