RX-300 - what is S-mode?

[m4rkw]

Does S-mode on the shift lever mean sport mode?  If I put it in S-mode do I need to change gear manually?

[PCM]

Yes and yes, I believe.

I use it very occasionally.

 

 

[sorcerer]

Yes, aaand.... sort of  

It's meant to be a sort of manual change in that you nudge the lever up to change up and down to change down. However, once or twice, not being used to it and getting myself a little flustered, the box does change automatically anyway if you somehow mess things up. On one occasion I put it into S to do a quick overtake but, being used to it changing automatically, I forgot to change up and when it got to somewhere around 4500-5000 revs the box did it for me anyway.