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Reversing into parking spaces saves money

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#32 05-08-2008 10:09am
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wet-paint wrote: »

Wow, now I'm totally confused. I'll just leave it. How does putting it in reverse require the engine to run harder from cold than putting it in first?

You control the revs of the car with the acelerator, not the different forward gears. For moving out of a space it's not as if you'll use anything but first?

You have *one* reverse gear at a fixed ratio - as such you have no granularity of control over engine speed as you do with a 5/6 ratio gearbox.

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