The term " Tiptronic" comes from Porsche which they put this name on their invented gearbox. But generally now this term is referring to automatic gearboxes which have some manual gearbox features mainly changing the gears by driver request.
In fact, Tiptronic gearboxes are being used by other manufacturers but they use different terms to refer to it. So generally drivers has the option to leave the gearbox in a way that it shift the gears or driver change it like a sequential manual gearbox.
Anyway it never performs as smooth as a manual gearbox and it's not as that fast. Specially in cheaper version after push the stick backward or forward there is a delay time which is annoying. The reason which this delay exist is that gearbox still changes the gear based on the torque and if the engine is not in the right torque it needs time to go to next gear.
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