Not really. At low rpm I can't change gears quick enough to avoid dropping past the rpm I want, which not only means I lose energy slowing down the engine that I just spend accelerating it, but I also lose vehicle energy bringing it back up to speed. And sometimes the decel fuel cut deactivates and the engine starts to idle between gears.
I would prefer a 5-spd auto or a cvt that I can tune in conjunction with the engine ecu. But because Toyota never saw fit to bolt such transmissions into an Echo/Yaris (not in Australia anyway) and nobody can re-tune the stock ECU I'm stuck with what I've got.
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