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Old 10-05-2012, 03:28 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Miller88 View Post
Most manual transmission vehicles i've driven with DBW throttles will not slow themselves down ... they just keep going.
My worthless anecdotal evidence is my TSX. It's a DBW manual, and it does DFCO braking just fine down to about 1,000 RPM.
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