Volvo C70 Owner's Manual page 113

Starting and driving
Automatic gearbox
R – Reverse
The car must be stationary when R is
selected.
N – Neutral
N is the neutral position. No gear is engaged
and the engine can be started. Apply the
parking brake when the car is stationary with
the gear selector in position N.
D – Drive
D is the normal driving position. Shifting up
and down between the different gearbox
ratios occurs automatically based on the level
of acceleration and speed. The car should be
stationary when the gear selector is moved
from position R to position D.
Manual positions (Geartronic)
To move from the automatic driving position
D to a manual position, move the gear
selector to position M. To go from position M
to the automatic driving position D, move the
selector to position D.
While driving
The manual gearshift mode can be selected
at any time while driving. The engaged gear is
locked until you choose another gear.
If the gear selector is moved to – (minus) the
car changes down a gear and engine brakes
at the same time as the accelerator pedal is
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released. If the gear selector is moved to
+ (plus) the car changes up a gear.
The selected gear is indicated on the
combined instrument panel (see page 39).
NOTE! Geartronic contains two safety
functions:
• Geartronic does not permit downshifting/
kick-down which would result in an
engine speed high enough to damage the
engine. Nothing happens if the driver tries
to shift down in this way. The original gear
remains engaged.
• Geartronic automatically shifts down if
the driver allows the speed to decrease
lower than a level suitable for the selected
gear, in order to avoid jerking and stalling.
W – Winter
The W button next to the
gear selector is used to
activate and deactivate the
winter programme W.
Display of the W symbol on
the combined instrument
panel indicates that the winter programme is
active.
The winter programme starts the gearbox in a
higher gear to facilitate starting off on
slippery surfaces. The lower gears are only
activated with kick-down when the winter
programme is engaged.
The W programme can only be selected in
position D.