Manual vs. Auto Transmission

[roxy1]

Originally Posted by grampi

You still got it wrong. Somehow you're associating higher gearing with higher RPMs. It's just the opposite. Higher gearing = lower RPMs.

no, i said the auto has a higher final gear (thus lower rpm's).

the people saying the mt has higher final gearing are wrong. if you drive an automatic yaris and a manual tranny yaris at 70 mph, i assure you that the automatic is running at lower rpm's. this has been confirmed plenty of times.