Blobcat
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My 7G box has the revs at 1,600 at 70mphBiggest complaint I have about the 7G (other than it being a real pain shifting) is that it revs the engine to high, 60mph at about 2000rpm is way too high IMHO. I would have thought the 7G would be used such that 7th and even 6th would be overdrive gears. I also quite often have to click the steering paddles to knock it into 6th/7th as it tends to hold onto the wrong gear.
Stop/Start on the V8 would make them a lot more economical, but lovely motors, small highly strung or big lazy lumps... apart from the cost, Id recommend anyone to take the V8 over a 4/6.