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Originally Posted by whaap
Each mile you travel at freeway speeds in 4th gear is causing much more wear on your engine components than mine will endure when I travel a mile in 6th gear. Wear in itself is not necessarily bad. However when you willingly cause excessive wear I consider that abuse.
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I agree with whaap.
imho when i just driving daily like from home to work i like to keep rpm low and try to keep economical. I don't see the point to drive in motorway and not using higher gear, yes engine sound nice but keeping at 4th and not planning to overtake is just strange to me.
I prefer to save the petrol, however when i felt like spirited driving I don't mind using more petrol..
by the way for driving on higher speed such as in motorway and open your windows, you will use more petrol due to the air resistance. so if I want to get lower mpg then I can just drive on straight on motorway, keep on lower gear (4th or even below), open my windows. I will get lower mpg but I don't see the fun in that.