There's a sixth gear?

[Dxm]

I usually pass the 5th gear and go right into the 6th. When passing somebody on the highway I always use the 4th gear.

This gearbox is very much like my ‘07 5-speed GT one. Same gear ratio 1–4. But 5 is slightly slower. And 6th is of course faster than the 5th. 5th gear comes in handy when you’re not quite cruising at highway speeds. But honestly in 17 years of owning my old car I never felt i was missing a gear.

I do hate the reverse gear. It doesn’t always disengage when parallel parking. It also slows me down because it takes an extra effort for it to disengage. The old arrangement of having reverse where the 6th gear was, was a lot easier.

and the handbrake is idiotic. Took me a while to get used to this little tab. I wish they had a regular handbrake.

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[Zig]

I usually pass the 5th gear and go right into the 6th. When passing somebody on the highway I always use the 4th gear.

After a recent outing this thread came to mind. Yep, skip 5 go from 4 to 6, the 5 to 6 pull is a pi[t]a when you inadvertently land in 4.