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6th gear with MT. You can easily use 6th gear for both local and highway. Cruising at 4th gear is just wasting your gas.........unless you're crawling around 20 mph.

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Old 07-24-2015, 09:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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6th gear with MT. You can easily use 6th gear for both local and highway. Cruising at 4th gear is just wasting your gas.........unless you're crawling around 20 mph.
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6th gear with MT. You can easily use 6th gear for both local and highway. Cruising at 4th gear is just wasting your gas.........unless you're crawling around 20 mph.
Yeah my commute is in the 30mph-35mph zones.
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6th, but would gladly stay in 5th if i could get better gas mileage(love stepping on the gas in 5th). My daily commute is mostly highway.
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6th gear with MT. You can easily use 6th gear for both local and highway. Cruising at 4th gear is just wasting your gas.........unless you're crawling around 20 mph.
It's not wasting gas. It's called enjoying you exhaust!
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