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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
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I feel like this argument is never going to end lol. Adding a gear to the gearbox adds maybe like 5-10 pounds, the extra gears have negligible parasitic loss due to churning oil, but the acceleration is better, the fuel economy is better. The only people who don't want more gears are people who don't want to shift more, but thank god I'm not one of them. Well, actually my car only has 5 gears, so it sucks wanting more gears I guess, but thank god most cars have more than 5.
Just because the gear ratios don't have a 40% spread all around doesn't mean it's for "ricers" that rev their engines too high. Shifting gears is not as smooth on wide ratio gearboxes, and it takes a lot of the fun out of driving stick. If you want to get from A to B on public roads yea, you only "need" 3 or 4 gears, but I'd much rather have 7.