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Originally Posted by Fundguy1
You don't need 10 gears. That means its shifting every 7 miles of added speed. This doesn't look like its designed as a fuel sipper, uts supposed to be sporty. Duck's 335i is a world record quarter car ready to break into the 9s. Why? 2 gears, less shift time. After about 6 speeds it just seems like theyre adding more gears to be bragidocious. Hey. You have 8? I've got 10. Ha ha.
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You bet it's part bragidocio because of the market for this car, which is
not hardcore speed enthusiasts. It's the middle-aged upper-middle-class guy who wants the latest and greatest cruisemobile on his block full of middle-aged upper-middle-class guys.
Duck isn't trying to get its fleet to conform to government fuel efficiency standards. Lexus is -- and mostly with engines that are at least several years old in design. Fuel efficiency is the number-one reason these high-number auto boxes exist.
Finally: how do you figure the car shifts every 7 MPH? So the car's top speed is somewhere between 70 and 90 mph? It depends on how the car's being driven at the time ... and besides: I guarantee you the LC has at least one sport-oriented drive mode that eliminates 1-3 of the top gears from the mode. (The ZF8 in our BMWs eliminates the top gear in anything above Sport mode, for instance).