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Originally Posted by ovekvam
I recently drove a Volvo S40 with small engine and automatic gearbox. Going uphill on highways, it could not keep up the speed in 7th gear, so it automatically selected 6th gear. Then it accelerated. If I lifted the throttle enough to stop accelerating, it shifted back up to 7th. Then I gave it enough throttle to keep the speed, and it went back down to 6th. Impossible to keep a constant speed! Even with cruise control, it went through this silly cycle repeatedly.
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Ovekvam, that's why we are all driving a BMW but not a "Bloody-Volvo" (commonly called in Australia)
BWM give you a much better and smarter gearbox