I still reckon that the famous jerk in the transmission from 2 to 3 or was it 1 to 2 was not a design feature. Maybe the pre-heating of the Cat was what the designers wished for, but I still think that the bad jerk was unexpected and they did not know how to get rid of it. I still think it was a design mistake thats why other car manufacturers didn't produce the same effect although they also had Cats in the cars they made. So why all the bull and crap about it being a design feature? Who in his right mind would create such a hiccup when a normally thinking car designer would create machines which are smooth and have no baffling bugs in it? Luckily they didn't design it to jerk badly all the way from 1 to 4. Obviously it was a mistake(the jerk, not the pre-heating) because they finally got rid of this in later models and realized their mistake. There should be a class action for replacement of the transmission as we have to suffer this for the rest of our days with the car having paid so much for it.