By skipping gears shouldn't that keep rpm's low? It's similar to short shifting; you're shifting into a higher gear earlier than normal. Just takes less shifts to do it. I remember that a decade ago, GM's had that shift block on their V8 manual cars. You had to go from 1 to 4 under anything less than heavy throttle. Supposedly it was to increase fuel economy.
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Originally Posted by Meeni
Neutral when coasting usually eats more gas than keeping a gear engaged. The engine has to eat fuel to keep idling, while most modern (like for the last 15 years) shut off fuel supply when engine braking (so in effect, you are using the engine pumping loss to keep it idling w/o gas).
Again, I'm curious about the rationale for skipping gears.
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