>> But nobody wants to drive around a housing estate revving
>> the nuts off their engine.)
>
> You clearly don't drive the same as my neighbor!

Probably not, no. ;-)

> For "normal" transmission boxes, more gears cost more money, so you only
> see 7 or 8 gear transmissions on luxury german or italian cars. For the
> rest of us mortals, adding gears for speeds that are illegal in most
> countries is not a cost-effective measure.

Sure. But there's *four* gears to get from 0 to 30, and *one* gear for 
the entire range from 50 to 70. That's looking only at perfectly legal 
speeds.

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