Apologies if I don’t respond quickly, but I’m over in the Lake District in my camper until after Christmas and the campsite WiFi is pants.
Since getting the car, I’ve mostly used the gearbox in drive mode (D) apart from a few steep downhills, where I pushed it across to ‘manual’ to hold a gear longer for the engine braking. Just before I came away, I pulled the lever from ‘D’ back to ‘S’ to select sport mode and it worked exactly as I expected, extending the rev range before changing up a gear, allowing better acceleration.
Once sport mode is selected, is there an easy way of deselecting it ? I thought pushing the lever forward once, would take it back in to drive ‘D’, but it took the car in to neutral. I could change it back to drive mode, by pushing a dash button and going into the ‘Infotainment’ screen and selecting normal drive, but I’d prefer to do it from the gear change.
I’ve had a couple of VW Touaregs with automatic gearboxes, but I can’t for the life of me remember how I used to get back to ‘Drive’ from ‘Sport’.