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The Telegraph using Americanisms! Oh, horrors. [heavy sarcasm e] Um, the Telegraph is a London paper, right? [ditto]
Yes, wow, the article describes what sounds like dropping out to me. What was that old, 3-part saying? Something something, (maybe) drug in, drop out? Dropping out is pretty much what I did, I guess, when I quit working the summer before my kids started to school. We're really influenced by our parents, or however we were raised, aren't we? My mom worked full time until she reached retirement age, so that we could have a better lifestyle and so that I could have a college education. I honestly don't know how we would have fared on my father's salary alone, but that's neither here nor there. I remember that she couldn't come to PTA meetings or other daytime school functions. Nowadays, it has sometimes seemed like I'm the only mom who doesn't work. My husband and I felt that, since you only get one childhood, we'd like for one of us to be more involved in our kids'. So I bought most of their clothes and toys at yard sales and consignment shops, and have never regretted my choice. I have been privileged to be very involved in their school lives, and they have seemed to enjoy it, by and large. Yes, I was a bit lonesome for adult company at times, but I'd do the same thing again without hesitation. However, this place sure helps fill in that gap, now! :-)
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Hi Jackie...I think what you're referring to is 60's LSD guru Timothy Leary's mantra: turn on, tune in, drop out. God forbid he'd be behind the wheel in any gear atall. Basically a shiftless character.
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The Telegraph using Americanisms! [Thuds from fainting brigadiers emoticon]But, Bingley, old chap, you will note that they quoted it. That's allowed, even in the Telegraph. Don't know about The Times, though; it might be considered to be too down market. And, anyway, in case you hadn't noticed, I confined my remarks to what happens when you use gearsticks! 
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When I was driving a TR years ago, it was widely accepted that downshifting is a better way to reduce speed going into a corner than braking. I'm not 100% sure that this is true, but we all thought it was true.
Any race car drivers out there?
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widely accepted that downshifting is a better way to reduce speed going into a corner than braking
Click and Clack would beg to differ. They say that it's hard on the transmission and transmissions are more expensive than brakes.
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You should be in a gear which is appropriate to your speed. When I approach a corner, and I'm in no real hurry, I let the car slow down of its own accord until its well within the rev range for the next lower gear, then change down to that gear and begin to apply the brakes at about the same time. If I'm in a hurry (i.e. racing), I shift down the gears under braking. Thus the gears give me some braking to aid the brakes, with the added benefit that I'm usually in the correct gear for accelerating out of the corner. I THINK the theoricians agree with my approach, but I'm too tired to LIU. Help yourselves and tear me to shreds.
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Nothing saying you shouldn't downshift once you get to the lower speed. The question was whether you should use the engine or the brakes to slow you down. In fact, Pfranz, your technique, that of letting the car slow down of its own accord and downshifting when you get to the slower speed, is precisely the one the Car Guys recommend as the best procedure.
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