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Top gear ratio (archive)
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Posted by Barnacle Bill on October 02, 2000 at 11:27:19:

In Reply to: Re: We wouldn't get rid of it but here are... posted by satep on October 02, 2000 at 10:05:17:


Since the final drive ratio for both manual
and autmatic is the same (4.10 according
to X5 brochure), would the RPM at the highest
gear be the same?

No. Final Drive is different than the top-gear ratio (as you can see). I suspect BMW made the top-gear ratio of the automatic lower to make up for the worse mileage of automatics... Manual drivers get a little more pep, but since pep isn't what 5th gear is traditionally about, one wonders why they didn't go lower and give us yet better mileage too.


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