Quote Originally Posted by pup2 View Post
6? I don't get why they keep adding gears when I was perfectly happy with 4 gears before -- faster acceleration and less shifting in city driving. Sure maybe more gears can give better performance and efficiency in highway driving, but we have much fewer highways here. And the highway roads in the provinces have trikes and kuliglig's and sugarcane trucks you have to slow down for!

Baka conspiracy yan para ipa-shift lahat ng mundo sa at para mas malaki benta ng oil companies ah!
Huh? Number of gears don't have much to do with fuel consumption... heck, it can be argued that 5-speeds accelerate better and consume less fuel than 4-speeds (at the cost of extra work for the driver)!

If car manufacturers wanted oil companies to sell more, they could just detune engines or make clutches slip all the time. No diesel engines or locking torque converters and all that stuff. If that was the idea, well, 5-speed trannies would just cost... way too much.