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Question posted by pfatty27 on July 18th, 2012

Shifting Problem

The cardoesn't want to go when starting out in drive but will go by shifting from first to second and so on. my question is does this car have a sport shift button that I can turn off. 

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Owner's Manual - Page 94

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Owner's Manual - Page 339

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