Gearing Automatics to get better FE

[Bill in Houston]

Originally Posted by bobski

I'm having a hard time thinking of a set of conditions where manual control would be advantagious when compared to computer control.

I dunno, bobski. You were the one complaining about the ratio taking too long to change. I thought that if you could control it yourself, like one does with a manual transmission, you might like it better. I think that I would. When you need to punch into a smal hole in traffic, you drop the ratio and crank the revs, wait for the hole, and then nail it. Vs the sloooowww agony you described...