michael769 wrote:I am puzzled by the reluctance to use high revs. Unless the car is modified to be unenecessarily noisy, other drivers don't really hear the engine noise of other vehicles from inside their cars so unless there is a concern around pedestrians and cyclists hering the revs (and that would only be a concern on quiet roads as road noise will make it unnoticable in heavy traffic conditions.
Unless of course you are driving a heavy that is.
I am also rather bemused by the comment "firm but almost imperceptable acceleration". Surely firm and almost imperceptable and at different ends of the acceleration range from the media and thus mutually exclusive.
I was also bemused by the suggested use of "low rev's" since it didn't sit too well with a previously expressed desire to progress and/or take the gap briskly and in an assertive and businesslike manner. It's all relative but a more responsive lower gear to avoid sluggishness in getting past and through hazards is better surely?