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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
Manuals... I've always seen the low gearing as being for perceived sportiness or peppiness, not BSFC. My best top gear mpg happens at 45 mph, hardly something a factory would target. But as much as I complain about the aero and low gearing, when I'm driving on the highway for time it still gets around 36 mpg. I'm talking about keeping it below 90 when the road allows, and only hypermiling (as such) when in traffic.
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Probably wasn't their intent, but it may be the case anyway. People apparently don't like shifting out of 5th on the highway for hills, so they geared it shorter? Seriously, why did they buy a manual then if they don't like manually shifting lol!