[Gllug] Greenhouse emissions (was Geforce2)

Jackson, Harry HJackson at colt-telecom.com
Fri Jan 25 09:08:06 UTC 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Harker [mailto:steve at pauken.co.uk]
> > > 
> > > <rant_return>
> > > All of the above is of course that everyone drives their cars at
> > > optimum efficiency. An automatic for the masses is generally a
> > > more efficient car as you do not get people revving their cars to
> > > death or boy racers on the motorway in third gear because it
> > > sounds good.
> >
> > I beg to differ, most automatic car's i've seen have only 3 gears,
> > and the engine rpm at 85mph is higher than its manual counterparts
> If you are driving at 85 mph, I don't think you can really expect 
> efficiency of any really useful sort.

Most of the modern Auto's now are built for decent efficiency on motorways
and have extra gears for this purpose. A manual gearbox is easier to run
inefficiently than an automatic nowadays. True ten years ago you had four
gears on an auto but not so much now.

Harry


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