_HighVoltage_
Captain Volvo
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2006
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- 1998 Volvo S70 T5M
Most cars are actually designed to run pretty slowly in 2nd;
Exactly. Most cars are actually designed so they can start in second gear (starting on snow in the winter).
That Subaru gearbox is really weird though, if you can't drive at 25 in 2nd gear....even if you have a long 1st gear, you should be able to drive in 2nd at that speed. I guess Subaru didn't think this through.
I see a lot of people with VW's commenting here...VW's have notoriously short 1st gears. It's actually painful to your ears to do 25mph in 1st gear in a VW Polo or Golf (maybe not the GTI).
Those are books, right? :lol:You live in america, most of those people don't know what manuals are :lol: