– What do the numbers on the gears of the car mean?

Question

I tried looking online but have a hard time finding out exactly what the number on the gears of the car represent. What’s the difference between 1-3 or 2-5?

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Answer 1

The numbers don’t actually mean anything in and of themselves. Low numbers are slow but powerful, high numbers are faster but have less power. The actual relationship between gears has nothing to do with the number of the gear (2nd isn’t necessarily twice as fast as 1st). It would be equally meaningful to assign the gears letters a-e but the convention is to use numbers