Eco/Normal/Sports throttle

[Cliff Mitchell]

Just a quick question. Is the difference between Eco, Normal and sports, simple a matter of throttle response, sensitivity, or is there something else happening?

 

[Mark Holmes]

Just a quick question. Is the difference between Eco, Normal and sports, simple a matter of throttle response, sensitivity, or is there something else happening?

The steering will also firm up on the normal and sports settings too.

 

[mystreet]

Done forget range as well. But it always depends on your right foot

 

[Cliff Mitchell]

The steering will also firm up on the normal and sports settings too.

I usually use eco and haven't often strayed into normal (except when I forget to move to eco) but is it a matter of pushing the throttle harder to achieve the same performance as sports?

 

[ARealHuman]

Other than what's been said above, I think it just sharpens up the response from eco > normal > sport. It doesn't put out any more power, it just gets you the same amount of power earlier (I see a torque/time graph in my head when I think abut this stuff!).

 

[Kithmo]

And it dumbs down the heating and AC a bit in ECO

 

[Gomev]

Other than what's been said above, I think it just sharpens up the response from eco > normal > sport. It doesn't put out any more power, it just gets you the same amount of power earlier (I see a torque/time graph in my head when I think abut this stuff!).

Funnily I tested this just this weekend.

While accelerating at a reasonable pace, in Normal power indicated was at approx 30%, I then flicked it to Eco and the power dropped to approx 25%.

These figures are quite approximate as I had one eye on the road and the other on the dials, but the drop off in power was noticeable as soon as I switched modes.

 

[Kithmo]

It's probably similar to this, changes pedal response.