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And how many muscle car guys actually will drive their car like that to see any benefit from a 6-speed? 99% of your market for this just wants 4-sp gearing for the track and the street with a nice overdrive gear to make highway cruising comfortable.



Having too much spread between 1:1 and overdrive is not always nice on the road. My Tremec (TKO-600, .64 overdrive) feels like a 6-speed missing the 5th gear. The minimum speed in 5th is the posted speed limit on public highways here, so I often have to switch back to 4th just to maintain RPMs above 1500 (worse things in life, I know).

And on a racetrack, I can't accelerate past 150mph because of the spread. 6500 RPM in 4th, all is fine, when I upshift the revs drop too much and I can only maintain that speed. There aren't too many tracks fast enough to require a good 5th ratio, I only know a couple here.

Had I known that, I'd have gone for the .80 final ratio version.