My point precisely!

Now, if US MB's have different rear ratios than Euros, and the dots are in the same place on both US and European what would that suggest????

There seem to be a few memebers here who believe in the "Golden Egg" that maybe US models got short changed and our MB's are not geared as well as they might be.

It is an interesting prospect if there's any merit to it! It has just seemed odd to me that the dots are eceedingly high, in fact I don't think I could get first gear up to the first dot before the governor limited engine RPM, haven't tried it, and don't want! But if the rear ratio was higher, I think my engine might get there in first without achieving governor limits, probably several hundred RPMs less. BB