[NickyG]

Hello all, people seem to have sorted this out now but yeah, the sport button just alters the steering and throttle response! All it basically means throttle wise is that with the sport button on, you don't have to press the accelerator pedal down as far to get the same opening on the throttle butterfly! It just makes it more sensitive, no more power or anything. I think it's a good idea though as when it comes to driving in traffic / parking etc you may want the sport button off, if it's on all the time it's a bit more difficult to drive smoothly.

Someone mentioned about the Astra VXR... I test drove one last weekend and that was difficult to drive smoothly all the time, with the sport button on, it was even more sensitive but you'd just get used to it. That sport button also doubled as a button for turning off the traction control / esp. If you held it down for 3 or 4 seconds it turned it off. On reading the brochure I think you could have an option that in controlled suspension stiffness also, not sure if it's the same method but on top gear I saw some car (can't remember what it was) that when you pressed a button it turned on electromagnets in the dampers and moved iron filings that are inside, changing the damping!

The guy that sat in when I test drove the VXR also said that one of his mates has courtney tuned one that when the sports button is on also activates the remap, therefore he has something like 300bhp with it on and the standard 240 with it off, so that's a good idea!