Driving up hills
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:05 pm
How is the Kizashi's performance when driving up hills (for those who already own one)?
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Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:53 pm
It goes up hills just like a car ... no need for horses to pull it along, no need to be pushed by a train.
Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:48 am
.. fine - however if you have the auto - use manual mode (i find it better / quicker anyway)
Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:32 pm
Works in the mountains, too.
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Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:53 am
Drove our SLS through both Washington and Oregon mountains on vacation in November (back highways). We do have some REAL mountains (Mt. Rainer, 14,000+ feet) and the car preformed great. Used manual on both steep up and down hill, with very little foot brake. Transmission, CVT, outstanding. Used the cruise control plus paddle shifters and averaged 36 mpg on the highway. Love this car. As good as my BMW 633CSi 5 speed manual.Jerry 2010 SLS with 11,202 miles
Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:28 am
^ can someone dump this spamming joker?
Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:23 am
Post was removed and user was banned. Sorry.
Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:39 am
Cool 
Re: Driving up hills
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:38 pm
Driving up-hills, in my opinion, is the largest benefit of a CVT over a traditional automatic transmission with fixed gear ratios. I love how smooth mine is.
One day, with the car loaded with passengers and luggage, it went up the Cajon Pass as if it was not even there. I also routinely accelerate on a fairly steep and long on-ramp to an Interstate; the Kizashi purrs like a kitten and goes easy with absolutely no jerks.
Driving up-hill from a complete stop is a different story. There is a noticeable jerk. Also the hill-hold system, while usually does work as expected, sometimes will not engage and the car may roll backwards unless care is taken (in these situations, I just keep the left foot on the brake and the right foot on the accelerator pedal, and control the car that way).
One day, with the car loaded with passengers and luggage, it went up the Cajon Pass as if it was not even there. I also routinely accelerate on a fairly steep and long on-ramp to an Interstate; the Kizashi purrs like a kitten and goes easy with absolutely no jerks.
Driving up-hill from a complete stop is a different story. There is a noticeable jerk. Also the hill-hold system, while usually does work as expected, sometimes will not engage and the car may roll backwards unless care is taken (in these situations, I just keep the left foot on the brake and the right foot on the accelerator pedal, and control the car that way).