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Originally Posted by Quicksilver
guroove-
Not sure how low, really low is, but I can assure you that if you're below the meat of your torque curve, you can do better that you already are doing, with just a little more rpms. Like funkymonkey's Prius, when you're below your torque curve, your engine bogs. Your low throttle settings work just fine when in the 'meat' of your torque curve. "Eggshelling" is exactly right, once you're 'torqued' up.
-Quick
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It seems the point I was trying to make was missed slightly. In my real world driving conditions, accelerating slowly allows me to keep distances behind other drivers large enough that I hardly ever need to use the brakes. What this ends up meaning in daily usage is that I often get up to 2000-2500 rpm before my automatic transmission shifts into the next gear. It may be more efficient for my engine to get up to 3400 rpm more often, but then I would be going too fast and need to use the brakes more when I get to the next traffic light, or to avoid hitting the car in front of me. On the highway, I tend to accelerate hard until I get to cruising speed, and I have been getting good results doing that as well, but for me, city driving is the norm.