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Old 01-18-2012, 05:38 PM   #6 (permalink)
PaleMelanesian
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Daox is absolutely right. A manual (even one crippled by poor gear ratios) allows much more mileage than an automatic.

As an example, all of the top ten gas logs here at ecomodder are manuals.
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