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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
With an engine that may be considered kinda underpowered for highway performance, extra gears really make more sense.
You may remember this one, the Brazilian-made Fiat Palio Weekend, which had a 1.0L engine exclusively to our local market.
Only with this engine a 6-speed transmission was available
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Exactly.
A small number of gears only
fits a car when it has plenty of power - regardless of how well the gearing is chosen.
But having plenty of power, is generally counter-productive to being fuel efficient:
Despite the graphics saying Power to MPG, it's actually Power to Liters/100km - that is, higher value is higher fuel consumption.
Baseline numbers are HP.
Power vs. mileage - Spritmonitor.de