The difference is that the skip shift condition was always in place, when X and Y happened it kept you from shifting to 2nd, this was true in the test and the real world.

You can’t have a ‘defeat device’ in your car here in America, and that’s what this seems to be. While, yeah, it might be nice to have a car that runs on an eco mode while you’re cruising 80, that’s not what’s happening here. This is a mode that keeps the engine running artificially low and disengages the moment you…