Downshifting a manual car for power and why lower gears have more torque

If you want to accelerate quickly or get up a steep hill then a lower gear is your friend. In this video I compare three different cars (including an automatic), I demonstrate different ways to change down the gears and I explain why lower gears give you more power.

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00:00 Three different cars
01:46 Why low gears have more pulling power
04:45 How to downshift
05:55 What is rev matching?
06:57 Quick rev matching and heel and toe
07:52 Is rev matching important?
08:08 Outro

[mrworks]

Passed my test 1st time last Thursday after 17hours of lessons and watching most of your videos countless times. You are definitely helping lots of people pass. Keep it up 💯

[eddiejones.redvees]

With the price of fuel i am happy to trundle along in the higher gears

[dimitriousdrake]

You really do have a video for everything! I passed a few weeks ago (with lots of your help!) but I'm now kind of struggling with downshifting to overtake, so this helps a lot. Thank you!

[nicat]

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[AivarPC]

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[ronin_boogz]

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[cameronleehorace]

I love accelerating my Ford Fiesta eco boost in 2nd gear, impressively powerful with fair amount of torque and the sound of the engine is terrific but the MX5 is lovely.

[______jsh______]

I understand this principle long before I watched this, but now I understand it much better! Thank you!

[jaxongarrison]

This is probably the most informative car video I’ve ever watched. I’ve only ever driven automatic cars but my partner is super into performance driving and I would always look like a deer in headlights whenever they would talk about how an engine works and all the cool stuff a car can actually do. I think I’m a pretty smart cookie but I just couldn’t comprehend how all the parts work together and the visual demonstrations were super helpful

[IllIIIlllIlIIlll]

this is the best explanation of gears that I have seen, thanks

[whizzofthenorth]

Just about to do my test, but all this extra information you provide with the actually theory behide it is great man. So cheers

[norasanchez]

You sure keep me rewinding to learn more and moore :) thank you for posting :)

[endoneezer]

one of the best rev match tutorials i've seen so far on the net, well done lad!

[charliecrabbe]

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[aren]

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[bentaylor]

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[sosviktoria]

Thank you for this Video! Very good explanes

[rokibalboa]

Nice video, as always, you are a real gentleman.

[barasurya]

I've been waiting for this video!!

[christosvrettos]

You are explaining how gears work really really well. I understood what u said quite easily! Thank you!