Most modern sedans, crossovers, hatches, and SUVs have the ability to change shifting modes from automatic to sequential and back to automatic again. Our Audi S4 can go from automatic to sequential paddle shifting and our old Mercedes that was replaced by the Audi could go from automatic to sequential stick shift.
Currently in the game you can only have one or the other, but not both. Will having both be possible?
Also, what about being able to have your car be able to be driven in different “modes”? This will add prestige and just simulate each mode separately, like an SUV having a road and offroad mode which changes the suspension height and stiffness, or a luxury sedan having both a comfort and sport mode.
Since I know this isn’t very high on the list of things to do there’s not much use posting it here but it’s something a lot of modern cars have and a game like this excluding it feels very weird.
In game ‘automatic’ refers to torque converter transmission and ‘sequential’ refers to automated clutch (single or dual), not the driver’s options for gear selection. It’s probably too minor to specify whether the torque converter transmission has tiptronic-style gear selection, but nothing is stopping you from roleplaying that. 
Most cars don’t have sequential transmissions. It is just marketing terminology at this point. Most modern cars just have a regular electronically controlled automatic transmission with a torque converter. The “sequential” function is nothing more than a paddle / button / lever that tells the automatic transmission’s computer that you want to shift. It is physically no different than a regular automatic, and it is just software that allows the manual shift mode.
I suppose having a software-based manual shift mode could be added to the driver assists page to fulfill what you’re talking about.
As for suspension modes, I assume that is included with the active suspension options. If you look, even the active sport suspension offers better comfort than regular springs.
EDIT - Sniped.
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Although, on further consideration perhaps a tiptronic option should be available to increase the sportiness of torque converter transmissions somewhat.
Well, even cars that are completely not sporty (like our 2L Hyundai Tucson) still have autos with tiptronic. I don’t think I know of anybody that uses the tiptronic as a “sport” feature (unironically at least), in my experience it’s often just used to pull away from roundabouts quicker and stuff.
But it’s labeled S for sport right there on the gear lever, a car company wouldn’t lie to me, would they?
It certainly could be used as a small sportiness increase, especially if the ratios aren’t the best. That way you can shift to a higher gear right away when overtaking, or use it to feel like you’re driving a sportier car by shifting manually.
Your audi either has a manual with a clutch, which is controlled by electronics, in which case you may request another gear from the electrical overlord by pressing a button (Paddleshift). Or it has a regular automatic with a torque converter, which you may request another gear from the electrical overlord by pressing a button (paddleshift).
If you ever driven a car with an actual sequential gearbox you’d know that your audi and mercedes do not have those.
In that topic, we need better automatic transmissions, because no matter how much quality points we add, they’re still pretty slow compared to modern ZF planetary transmissios.
Hate to say it, but we need CVTs, too. For realism.
I was under the impression CVT is planned(?).
I wonder how they’ll balance it. In theory, a CVT should be absolutely flawless in every way (Except sportiness and “ease of use” or whatever it’s called).
Reliability penalty and drivetrain losses growing with the engine torque might be somewhat realistic.
Yeah, I think a prestige penalty would also make sense. I would still totally equip it on all my non-sports cars though. Won’t have to bother with figuring out gearing anymore 