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Originally Posted by politicophile
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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The car was actually designed to meet local and highway shifting techniques without undue strain. In other words, in local driving conditions, you'd normally go thru the gears at lower rpm's-the car responds and you can't just pounce the gas and wind out the gears to redline. On the other hand, when in highway driving, one usually does pounce the gas-the car responds by allowing maximum speeds in each gear-'performance shifting' they call it. Normal is recommended at 15-1st to 2nd, 25-2nd to 3rd, etc. Performance shifting is recommended at 30-1st to 2nd, 60-2nd to 3rd, 85-3rd to 4th and 5th to 115. It actually fights if one goes from 'normal' to 'performance'.
There are many ways to shift, for sure. These are more along the lines of what the particular car is designed to do (but I've also dragraced it and it's not designed for that!!)