The idea is that you use brakes as you approach say a roundabout to adjust your speed to whatever is suitable, then you select whatever new gear you need when you need to 'go' - if you have stopped then that will be first, if you are still rolling probably second.
That has been taught [to qualified drivers] for at least 40 years I think, it was current when I did my AM sessions in a Fiesta I had from 80-81.
But with 6 gears some common sense, control and sympathy surely apply. For myself I don't want to be dipping the clutch at 25-30mph and I don't want to be in 6th unless cruising. I'll probably have dropped from 6th to 5th some way off the hazard, then maybe 5th to 3rd as the rpm approach tickover. That's in the manual petrol. The auto's (6 speed slusher in the diesel, 7 speed DSG in the Roomster) look after themselves.
Last edited by: Manatee on Sun 26 Jul 20 at 20:02
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