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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Yes, you can, and it doesn't involve the parking/emergency brake.
Professional drivers and car engineers/designers use something called heel-toe shifting. One foot (the left, here in the States) operates the clutch, the other operates both the brake and accelerator: the ball of your foot is on the brake and you rock the edge of that same foot over to goose the throttle at the same time. This technique is primarily used in performance driving/racing wherein you have to match revs when downshifting so the car doesn't lurch all over the place--a bad thing to happen if you're in a turn, moreso if the weather's bad. Many car magazines will extol the virtues of a car that has good pedal placement to facilitate this technique.
Most automotive journalists will admit it's inaccurately-named, but if you can pull it off successfully while in the company of a professional they will be suitably impressed.
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Yes, but then I was un-extolling the un-virtues of the pedal style parking/emergency brakes, which make such gyrations necessary!
So here's my rant; automotive engineers who should know better!