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Stepping away from the "learning transmission" topic. (BTW: I agree with you on that and have stated as such earlier in this thread)Everyone who says the transmission needs to learn...please stop. You don't know what you are talking about.
The reality is that when you aren't accelerating the transmission won't be in a higher gear than necessary for fuel economy and/or emissions. Sorry people, upshifts and downshifts are going to happen, that's just the way it is. All we can hope for is that it does it smoothly and quickly.
You brought up something here that seems not entirely accurate. You can observe the transmisison's gearing selection and shifting in real-time while driving it.
Full-auto on 2H: There is no reason for that transmission to be in 7th (or higher) when merging at 60mph. By the time you actually get to the merge point and you're at about 45 mph you'll have to apply full throttle and watch it downshift 2-4 gears until the TPS matches whatever gearing they've programmed into the transmission.
"sport mode" (so you can use the +/- manual gear selection): you can do the same merge easily up to 60 mph with nearly identical throttle as the full-auto, in 5th.
You can observe the truck rolling at 40 mph in 10th gear. You can observe the truck hunting through gears at every incline/descent.
Sorry to say it, but unless Bronco is somehow not made with CAFE requirements in mind, the 10-speed in it will be acting the same as in Ranger....
On the very last topic: I think others sharing their theories raise important questions worthy of closer examination and spirited debate. And so they have. To my mind, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. Commentators who believe that others should be silenced or exclude opinions different than "mainstream" undervalue their own contribution. Even if it's to not buy Bronco because the2-door rear seat hinges are large.
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