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Old 09-10-2006, 03:15 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I know my car can be driven two different ways: normal or speed-shifting. The speed shifting, for highway driving, allows the gears to go much higher so I can hit about 50 in 2nd before having to shift again to 3rd.
I'm sorry, I don't understand the difference you are drawing between normal shifting and speed shifting. I also don't understand how your shifting technique can change the maximum speed you can hit in a particular gear. If all you mean is that you have a tendancy to shift at higher RPM's when getting on a highway than when tooling around your neighborhood, then we're in agreement that there are indeed (far, far more than two) "different ways" to shift.
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