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No worries about ditching the spare, it is a pretty insignificant weight compared to the rest of the vehicle.
The automatic in the AVIO I rented was horrendous, downshifting at the slightest provocation, staying down far to long.
Does yours have instantaneous fuel consumption readout? If not MPGuino, scan gauge or the like may be a great help for you. It will really help refine your technique. I guess my MPGuino is worth about half of my improvement in the Civic, which means it has paid for itself more than 4 times over in the last year.
About the best I can offer for technique at this point is learn where the thing down shifts, then don't push the gas down to that point while accelerating, push it down just to that point to get the throttle opened up a bit. When getting close to a shift point you can lift up a bit and cause the car to shift up and then resume accelerating at the throttle position just before it downshifts again.
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