Lets do some math.
4 gears is less than 5 gears. It takes a car longer to accelerate with 4 longer gears than 5 shorter ones.
What rock did you crawl out from under n00b, it's a well know fact that given two of same car, one auto one 5-speed, the 5-speed will be faster. There has been no argument about this, ever, untill you came along
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