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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
That's what I say about California's six-lane "parking lots" during rush hours.
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That's actually the situation when I think having more gears is the most helpful. 2nd gear is too long in my car for crawling sometimes, but 1st feels wasteful running the engine at over 1000rpm doing zero work, and continually modulating the clutch to P&G at 5mph is extremely annoying. Also I commonly find the traffic moving at ~10mph, which is barely inaccessible to 3rd gear. The C60 6 speed transmission would give me 3 gears to crawl in instead of 2.
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Sounds like a good place for electric drive.
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My Beetle has 5 gears and they are all short & quick gears , I can bang threw them from 1st gear to 5th without raising my RPM over 1300.
Cars with 3 - 4 gears force people to raise the RPM to get the car into the next gear , with the 6-7 or 8 speeds you can easily use the next closest gear at your low rpm because they are so close together.
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Raise the rpms above that for how long- a second or two?