Thank you for this suggestion but that's not what my question is about. My apologies if i was not clear.
Your suggestion would implement, using the shift lever to select appropriate gear for the right speed.
My question is regarding the transmission automatically downshifting to 1-st gear when coming to a complete stop. The F-Sport I drove before did just that.
As an example, you're operating the vehicle in a manual mode in 4th gear. All of a sudden you had to stop to avoid collision and did not downshift your transmission.
Now, imagine you need to accelerate immediately to get out of harms way, in order to do this you would need to bring you transmission to 1-st gear, which would require moving your shift lever 4(four) times, a little inconvenient when every second counts.
Finally, why on some models the transmission downshifts automatically while others it does not. Is it indeed a problem with a transmission or just a different set up.
Thank you.