Can be done. I'll actually be driving a lot of people around this weekend!
This is always in the agenda, with any car.
From my experience driving a Waja with the same gearbox (but diff engine, 4G18), the gearbox does not hunt, but it downshifts very aggressively. The shifting pattern is actually to my taste, but I've read a lot of forummers' disapproval of it
Easily done. Tried before in Captiva.
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