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sudonanohomeyesterday at 9:49 PM1 replyview on HN

When you have a small fuel efficient engine, you can tell and feel the difference. With a V6 under your hood, you probably don't care. US is mostly big engines


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qballtoday at 12:11 AM

You will still care that you're wasting a bunch of your engine's potential, even with a V8.

Autos (not DCTs) don't generally let you rev the engine as high as manuals do, they don't really let you take advantage of engine braking, and they may ignore your command to manually shift them into a lower gear at will (DCTs can do that too).