Was wondering does anyone use the buttons on the steering to accelerate and slow down rather than the floor pedals while motorway driving or wherever.

Yeah, sometimes use them when in cruise control... Just for the sake of it really.

Yeah all the time whilst using the Cruise Control. I tend not to use the resume button so much though as if you've got a lot of speed to make up it floors it in an un-lady-like way!

I notice a decent increase on journeys when I use Cruise to those when I dont. 

Amazingly often, I have a big thing about 30 mph limits , something to do with speeding and attending RTC's so I have mine set at 30 and just hit resume at the limit sign. Also its good fun on the open road to maintain traffic speed behind the muggles by switching off and on and not braking . Dan I know what you are saying I used to have a Saab 9000 2.3 t and when you hit resume on the cruse control it used to try and pull the M 6 backwards in its efforts to get back to speed  2008 MY Supercharged
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