2003 GLI Gear Ratio

Feb 01, 2004 0 Replies

I have owned a 2003 Jetta GLI for about 4 months and I like almost everything about this car with the following exception:



After shifting into 6th gear I noticed that when traveling 75 MPH the engine is taching at 3000 RPM. In my opinion, the RPMs are excessively high for sixth gear! I keep wanting to shift again to lower the RPMs!!! Why did they even put a sixth gear on this car? What is the purpose?



Is there a problem with my GLI? I do not know of any other cars (even four cylinder cars) that rev 3000 RPMs in the highest gear. :-(


Thanks,


-Mij


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