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Originally Posted by cuda47
The problem is, if i want a light car, the engine is light, and need to shiftdown in uphill....
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This is all in the gearing, and has little to do with how light or heavy a car is.
Look at it this way: If you don't have to downshift when going uphill, your gearing is too short. If your new car does need to downshift, it has a better top gear for fuel economy on the flats.
In the US we have a lot of long-haul trucks, and they may need to downshift several times for even the shallowest grades. They're both heavy and have heavy engines, but they have good enough gearing that they can get almost full load on flat roads.
