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With my subaru and it's rather short gears it's fairly impossible to short shift. As soon as I get on the throttle a bit in first gear the RPMs hit 2000-2500.
However I noticed how I accelerate has far less effect on my daily consumption than how I decelerate. I just don't use brakes. The whole 25 km drive home in 20km/h average speed maybe I tap the brakes lightly here and there. In regular city driving with light traffic I accelerate to 3000rpm getting up to 70kmh with gears 1-3 and then I drop to neutral and coast down to 50kmh. But my next pulse is followed by a fifth gear acceleration at 1500rpm instead. This gives me about 30mpg on a stretch of road. I can get same or worst results if I use all gears off the red light but at a slower arrival time.
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