Varsfootball44

now that's tight.

The is is pretty fast. You guys must drive like your grandmas.

If you do a search here, you'll find some discussions about the ECT switch. I have noticed the car does respond more with less accelerator input, and the shifting logic changes also. I can feel it downshift in the power mode when I brake, but in normal I don't feel that at all. I have also noticed and come to really like the transmission will hold a gear much better when going into the twisty section of road. When I am just about to clip an apex, the transmission seems to just be happy to stay in gear even when I come off the throttle all the way, so when I press on the throttle coming out it just picks up where it left off and keeps everything really smooth. It took a few times to get used to it, but now I have come to really appreciate some of those little changes.

Agreed!!! The PWR mode does a fine job of “assuming” what you are going to do next. Try breaking suddenly from 70mph after a sustained romp at 70mph (where legal). Transmission will normally drop and hold waiting for you to hit the accelerator to return to your original speed. They did a great job of observing how drivers act, where the transmission should be in a variety of scenarios, and then programming this mode around them.

And it learns from the driver as well???:::

“…The ECT-i computer also has a limited ability to adjust for transmission wear and to learn and respond to a person's driving behaviour. (based on the resulting engine input conditions).”

But that aside, the greatest feature of the PWR mode is that it holds the engine within the sweet spot of its power curve. Meaning, we don’t have to wait for the transmission to downshift to the optimum gear to deliver the desired power (response) at the current speed.

Great discussion here:

http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index...c=46602&hl=

Ya the ECT makes a night and day diff

would u describe that feeling as your car, miraculously after doing nothng but driving it, becoming a "beast"? :D

Ya I def know what rishi is talking about the car gets a ton faster as it breaks in thank god bc when I first drove my is it was a lot slower too