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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Good analogy about the brakes.... but shift speed isn't where you're going to save fuel. (I know you know that :P)
Unless the DSG type transmission has a hard core hypermiler on the programming staff, I seriously doubt it would be equipped with the type of logic that would let us do the types of things some of us do with a conventional manual tranny.
Bump starting a stopped engine on the fly, for example.
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Oh yeah - totally... While writing that, I was thinking of my dad... He drives a stick because he puts down a lot of miles and carries a lot of crap in his car (work stuff). I'm sure there's plenty of other people out there, like my father, that drive a manual for the FE - but don't hypermile.
Bump starting is a very good point though - I didn't initially consider that
