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Learning to drive in the 356, dad would get on me about not shifting until whatever rpm you'd end up at was out of the lugging-the-engine range and starting to get into the develops-the-power range... about 2k rpms on the C engine. Fortunately teh math on the 4 gears is pretty quick to do, but it averages out at about shifting around 4500rpms and you end up at about 2100rpms. Redline is at 5500...
When he got the 911, same held true - very rarely going into 3rd gear, except 4th would get used on the interstate for cruising... 5th gear only got used a few times when he took the car to a DE event at sebring...
and lisa_spyder is correct.. more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow...
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“IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO.”
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