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Originally Posted by Dake

Apparently stating twice "Level ground" ie "average conditions" wasn't enough so I'll state it a third time:

Under average conditions on level surfaces in regular traffic.

No where did I say this is what happens every time, all the time, regardless of the world around me. This is for tooling over to the grocery store for a gallon of milk. That is not how I drive on a track day or how I even drive merging onto the highway.

This method does not "lug" the engine in anyway in those general circumstances. If the conditions are not appropriate for a low RPM upshift, wait until a higher RPM. Yes, throttle position matters and that is taken into consideration.

Also, I'm glad people driving turbos have an apparently better understanding. I think the most important thing to understand is: we're not driving a turbo.

It's just that throttle position is much more evident when driving a turbo platform, sorry for the confusion