Handling is very nice on the CX - 7, but the tachometer likes to stay close to 2,000
rpm in normal driving conditions.
Not exact matches
The car
in not running smoothly at
normal driving RPM, if I accelerate more I don't fill the jerkiness, which by the way is not continuous, but repeats regularly about avery 3 - 5 seconds, can be easily observed by driver and it is clearly more visible if the car is going up towards a hill.
The saddest thing is, turbo motors usually use more fuel than their n / a counterparts
in normal driving... Only at very low, test - friendly engine speeds (when the turbos aren't spinning) do they actually reduce consumption, but I don't know many people who
drive below 1,000
rpm.
Much of the extra torque is available down
in the 1,850 - to 3,000 -
rpm range, just where you need it
in normal driving situations.
Starting off
in normal driving I would see the tachometer needle at 5,000
RPMs sometimes and wonder if I had accidentally bumped the transmission to manual.
With the
Drive Mode selector
in Normal, the V8 putters smoothly around town at low
rpm while returning 16 mpg
in the city and 24 mpg on the highway, according to the EPA.
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NORMAL (balanced
driving and fuel economy) This mode leverages IMA's ample torque
in the low
rpm range to pursue ease of operation for everyday
driving.
We did feel that
in normal Drive mode, upshifts are set a little low, occurring at about 2,300
rpm.