drive like its stolen

[gmoney]

I have been reading some of the older post and many of them say to drive the crap out of the truck. I do NO off roading mostly in town, is the occasional drive like its stolen good for the truck.

Also many talk about driving in sport mode, what is the benefit of that. I would assume it would use more gas…

Thanks in advance

 

[nwoods]

Its fun. Expensive car, might as well have fun with it. Take it offroad just once with the quarterly dealer "Wheeler event", PLEASE!

Try this, put the car in sand mode, low range, and then stomp on the gas. It will accellerate mildly at first, then it gets going in a hurry!

 

[toddjb122]

Try Sport mode. Better throttle response.

Doesn't seem to impact my highway mileage. The city mileage is crap anyway so I don't know if there is a difference (certainly not if you want to have fun driving it)

With a login like "gmoney" you shouldn't be worrying about gas consumption. LOL

 

[allodial]

Sport mode holds lower gears for longer allowing for higher RPM's before the automatic kicks in and shifts to the next gear... basically it's the next best thing to just using the command shift to manually get the most pickup out of each gear before shifting.

i use sport mode when getting on freeway on ramps, off stop signs and lights to get up to speed quicker, etc....

 

[Houm_WA]

gramps you're driving me crazy....

...first of all, "drive it like it's stolen" is a figure of speech. Drive it however you want. Driving it like it's stolen won't benefit or hurt the vehicle profusely either way.

As for Sport Mode. You've gotten the technical breakdown already above. It just drives more responsively...holds RPMs a bit. If you've had other rigs with overdrive, it's like turning the O/D "off" but more pronounced.

...Command Shift is even better.

As for your insistence to NO offroading. Well, frankly, that's YOUR problem.

Having an LR3 and not wheeling it, at least mildly, is like having a Ferrari and never getting out of 3rd gear.

 

[roverman]

Houm, I'm gonna guess he knows it's a figure of speech, since he titled his thread with it. Gmoney, an argument could definitely be made that getting aggressive with the foot pedal once in a while and getting the revs up is "healthy" for an engine. It'll help burn out the carbon and keep your engine tip top...not sure to what degree though. Mostly, I think it's good for the spirit for you the driver to appreciate just how awesome of a vehicle you have.

 

[gmoney]

sounds like we are a little crankey today, just trying to figure all of this out, not trying to be a pain in the ass!!!!

 

[gmoney]

Try Sport mode. Better throttle response.

Doesn't seem to impact my highway mileage. The city mileage is crap anyway so I don't know if there is a difference (certainly not if you want to have fun driving it)

With a login like "gmoney" you shouldn't be worrying about gas consumption. LOL

worrying is why i have the name, haha

 

[Houm_WA]

g-

You're not being a pain in the ass. We all have the right to post here.

...but in so doing you are soliciting people's opinions.

My opinion: Go wheel your rig and learn its value. Drive it in Command Shift and see how she does. So many people are out there getting 10% out of their LR3s and don't even know it.

 

[jimbiram]

Geez, I drive mine hard, and have been known to take curves pretty hard, and wind it up to 6k regularly while accelerating. Gas mileage sucks when you do that, but it it impressive for such a heavy vehicle. Have fun....why bother driving a vehicle if you can't have fun with it....