So i "found out" that if the car is in neutral and the cruise is set, when the resume is hit, the car will freely rev untill either it hits and bounces off redline or is some other way canceled (ie - brake, clutch, cancel button or cruise-off).

It scared the crap out of me. When it happened I didn't know what happened and it almost hit redline. You'd think the car would know when it's not in gear and not rev, but then again not much of an issue - i guess.

No real question here, but anyone else know this or have it happen to them.

 

This is good to know, but lets drive safely.

 

The only gears it can "tell" is forward or reverse. Otherwise, everything that would tell the car what gear it's in isn't present in a manual. Toyota assumes that the driver would take place of such indicators and sensors.

It's never happened to me but I always assumed that'd be the case.

But I've had my own run-in with the cruise control before too. On a different car, an automatic, I thought the accelerate function was like a gas pedal in your hand so I held it up and the car downshifted twice to meet what it interpreted was my intention.

 

Hmmm that is strange...

 

yeah it's happened to me i was driving down the rd with my cruise set and my dad pulls it outa gear (what a moron) and yeah it reved till it about hit redline and then i finally noticed it completely confused me why it would do that.......

 

My old car would do that if you hit the clutch: rev, but stop when it hit like 4-5k (redline is 7) when you had cruise control on. It was a Dodge Avenger.

 

why would you even try that?!

 

I didn't try it. I was slowing down so pulled out of gear into neutral. Traffic started up again and I forgot i wasn't in gear and hit resume.

 

interesting, I never considered this possibility.

However, it sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact, I believe (not quote me on it, though) that cruise control is a relatively recent feature for mass market manual trannies.

 

ME TOO!!

 

Sorry mate, but I had an '87 BMW 325is...5spd w/cruise. That means at least 20 solid years of manual trannies with cruise that I'm aware of :D

 

I wouldnt do that..

 

oh well, my bad

haha, my salesguy was all like "yea it has cruise control now, its new on manuals, its really advanced these days"

maybe the japanese are a little behind

 

My 90 Celica GTS 5spd had cruise control.

 

aww danget

 

My dad's 1983 Datsun 280zx 5spd had cruise control as well. I was shocked when I saw it.