You may have missed that 5-speeds are easier to keep clean.
Yup. You read right. Here's how:
Say you're cruizin along in your 5 speed and you need to slow down a little. Like for traffic, or radar, or you spot a really cute member of the appropriate sex. So you just back off the gas a little, and the car slows down a little.
Now say you were driving an automatic. Ya back off the gas and the juice-drive transmission just lets the axles freewheel so ya gotta tap the brakes. The brakes slow you down by applying some wear to your brake pads and rotors, and generate a little bit of that annoying black grunge that messes up your wheels.
5 speeds: Less wear on the brakes, less grunge on the wheels.
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