Questions about downshifting

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Originally Posted by YamilR

In my opinion, If your going to downshift just go back one gear at a time 75-80mph on 3rd gear is a killer for any tranny

One gear at at time? that's for a stupid sequential system!! Even the vaunted twin shaft system on the VW's can only do it one gear at a time. To get the most out of driving on the streets (with a passion) is to skip gears when downshifting (especially if you have a high revving small engine). It might not make alot of sense on the race track, but it makes lots of sense on the streets. I've avoided my share of accidents on the intersection by ramming it into first (front 3rd or 4th) and getting the hell out of the way asap. If you don't know how to downshift multiple gears on your manual transmission then you might as well be driving a primitive automatic. Granted, a regular automatic can downshift multiple gears when stomping on the gas pedal, but by the time the transmission decide to kick down, I'd already have been t-bone by the truck coming at me. Also, with manual, you can plan your downshift and skip as many gears as needed to give the kind of result desired...which is not possible with an automatic or a sequential system.