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Originally Posted by Hoooper
highway mileage shouldnt go up much or at all as a result of more gears, its the city mileage that is most affected. Unless of course they overdrive the crap out of 8th to the point where it can only be effectively used on perfectly flat ground and it downshifts to 7th constantly.
On that note, it does annoy me that 6th gear isnt a little bit longer to get the revs down while cruising, seems unnecessarily high for a diesel and its not like 6th needs to be any sort of a performance gear
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Yep..And it's the city miles which the newer diesels have the advantage. Hey mileage is probably a little better in real world but who knows.
I like 6th actually. Max torque is ~1750-2500 so it works for me.