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I'm always shocked at how low in the rpm range people shift. Lugging the engine is bad - whenever I let someone drive my car I always remind them to not shift the second the car starts rolling LOL.
Good point.
However AFAIK, the engine has big horsepower and Tq for __racing__. Doesn't need it for the streets.
According to my amateur conclusions: That means you can run the thing in 4th gear and 1200 rpm and still accelerate at residential street speeds when you put foot down and NOT lug engine. (I might be off by a gear, I can't remember exactly: try it yourself).
That's how I was driving it at first. Like if it was a diesel. Shifting at 3,000 or 4,000 rpm, and asking myself what all the fuss was abou. When you hit 7,000, you finaly understand what porsches are about.
But driving an old 964 at 2000rpm is impossible. There's nothing. That's what cool about the new porsches, you can drive around like if it was a golf.
BTW, I derived the concept I espoused above from my M3 with SMG.
The engine also has Lots of Tq and HP.
Put the SMG in "automatic" at the "granny" setting and you'll see BMW's computer decides to run the car in a gear which seems, at first, waaaaay too high at RPMs which seemed waaay too low.
That's when I got the clue that you can't "lug" these engines unless you do things at..., what...?, 500 (five hundred!) rpms?
Soooooo, the reason we have six speeds is for racing and shaving tenths.
For street driving, just put it in second or third (or fourth?) and forget about it.
Sometimes I go directly from first to third.
Kerazy!
P.S. With my new Turbo? It's even more nuts. Haven't gotten used to it yet, might be exaggerating or misrepresenting here, but it seems like it'll do _any_thing in _any_ gear compared to the 997S I had.
