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Originally Posted by RedDevil
When drivers hold you up in the mountains that's usually not their cars fault, that was my point.
Almost any car should be able to do any slope, just downshift and boot it.
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Well, then we have a conundrum. On the flat, my Insight is perfectly adequate: when a light changes, I am moving and up to speed before most of the other cars, I can merge briskly on to the freeway, etc. (Is it because the car accelerates better, or because I have better reactions than the other drivers, though?)
Yet it is kind of underpowered for mountain roads: it'll maintain 55 up a 6% grade unless there's a headwind (which is usually the case hereabouts :-(), but doesn't accelerate well out of curves. (There's a limit in downshifting, where engine RPM meets redline...)