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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
What do you gain with all those gears? If your deal is max acceleration rate, that is what you gain. If your deal is fe, you lose from all that shifting- a most inefficient process what with all that throttle blipping and halting forward motion- and you lose from a transmission that has more moving parts and I would imagine more internal friction.
In the '80s the eco-stick trans options were 4-speed instead of 5.
With my 5-speeds I'm always skip shifting, like 1-3-5. I would like to only have the 1-3-5 gears and throw 2-4 away and save the internal trans losses.
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I usually only use 1st or 2nd and 5th, no need for any of the other gears except when
1. Pulling
2. going up hills.
My insight I find myself using more gears, cobalt though is stuck in 5th 99% of the time.
I am guessing frank that if you have a motor that is underpowered enough you could actually "need" the gears or if you overgeared where 5th was unusable a good chunk of the time like my suburban or my subaru 360 that doesn't have enough power to skip any gear without coming to a stop.