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interesting question about manual trannies, downshifting, and gas consumption

posted by  invar on  Thu Nov 13 04:32 CST 2003
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my brother in law asked this of me a week ago.

if you are in a vehicle running at highway speeds and you need to slow down and then proceed to downshift to provide compression/engine braking, does your gas consumption go up because of the increased engine speed (RPMs) or not? my reasoning is that the engine is basically idle when you do that because you're not applying gas, and that the wheels are driving the engine, not the other way around.

so my gut feeling says no, fuel consumption does not increase.
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New interesting question about manual trannies, downshifting, and gas consumption
posted by  invar  on Thu Nov 13 04:32 CST 2003 >
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