Originally Posted by flashburn

Okay. Anyway, back to the topic at hand.

Vegitto, your reasoning is kind of what I was thinking in the first place. I switched on the instant MPG readout and it seems to agree.

This all came about because I noticed how frequently when in Auto the car will downshift on acceleration when I really didn't need it to (i.e. going from 70-75, basically small increments), like most auto's will do. So I started wondering if when its doing that it also isn't as fuel efficient as staying in that higher gear, given about the same level of acceleration. It didn't seem efficient because it would shift down a gear or two for a couple seconds worth of acceleration and then after a few more seconds shift back up to 7th.