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Originally Posted by Ecky
The few times I loaned my father-in-law my Insight, he left it in 3rd on the highway.
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To be fair, there are stretches of highway where you really need to spend a lot of time in 3rd. In the Bay Area, going north on I680 from San Jose to the I580 junction, for instance. Just can't climb some of those hills in 5th, and seemed to get better mpg in 3rd than 4th.