>> You'd think 5 speeds would be few enough for it to choose an appropriate gear
>> every time, but it seems like just enough to ensure that it won't.
>>
>> Changes are nice and smooth, though, just not often into the the ratio you would
>> expect, or even when you would expect it.
>>
That might be because, with the greatest of respect, the vehicle telematics are smarter than you are.
When I first had a lorry with an auto box (actually a Volvo i-shift which strictly speaking is an automated manual) I found that if left to its own devices, it changed upwards far earlier than I would have done in a manual, even had I been observing the protocol of "keeping it in the green"; comparisons soon showed me that despite my perceptions, progress was no slower if I left it to its own devices, and fuel economy actually improved slightly.
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