how do you know when to change gears in a manual car?

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how do you know when to change gears in a manual car?

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Going by speed is the easiest but also the most incorrect way. You can go at 20 on a level road in gear 4 but if the road is steep, you might need to go down to 2. What matters is how much load the car is carrying.

All experienced drivers do it by feel. And this feel is an internal assessment of multiple factors such as sound of the engine and rate of acceleration.

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