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Old 03-07-2012, 02:25 PM   #141
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Originally Posted by Corey View Post
If that's the case I feel very bad for the 80% of people that are spending way too much money on gas.
First of all, I don't know anyone whose worried about gas when buying a toy sports car as a 2nd or 3rd vehicle which is what this car is marketed as. As long as the car gets decent mpg who cares?

What makes you think people are wasting a lot of gas? For cars that make good power/torque, that max torque figure usually occurs between 3-4k. That is a pretty standard shift range for people who aren't driving a prius or trying to hypermile. Hell, my car idles at 1100 rpm so shifting at 3500 rpm really isn't using much of the rev range at all.
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