It’s also typical for a Honda fit
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Successful_Try543@feddit.org 13 hours agopractice pushing the gas pedal just enough to hold the engine at 3000 RPM or so. Not making crazy racing noises, just a nice steady “the engine is running normal-fast-ish”
Depending on the type of car, this might usually be somewhere between 1500 and 2000 RPM, 3000 RPM are more typical for a sports car.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
lime@feddit.nu 12 hours ago
especially in a diesel…
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Overall (and this is from a lifelong manual driver), I go much more by feel than I do any particular number on the tach, under normal driving circumstances.
lime@feddit.nu 10 hours ago
i can imagine. i’ve mostly had automatics, but when i was looking for my first car one of the candidates was an old saab that only had little indicators on the speedometer for where to shift. in that situation i imagine muscle memory is created pretty quickly.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
There’s some of that, but you really do get a feel for the car, where it likes to be, how it likes to be treated/driven, where its limits are, and so on. As others have said: it absolutely does help you forge a more detailed perception of what your car is doing, and where the limits really are.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Indeed.