In the Omega, it stays in D (R if I want to go backward, obviously
) and gets moderate throttle most of the time - I guess it changes up somewhere between 3-4000rpm. I tried driving back home this morning using the "no more than 2000rpm" approach - within about 2 minutes I had a car up my chuff trying to push me along; I don't know how anyone drives like that without having the patience of a saint and skin thick as an elephants..
The M3 tends to stay in flappy paddle mode as it's 'automatic' mode (it's a proper gearbox, just computer controlled) is laughable, better than the first gen SMG but still quite comical with when it decides to change down
, and gets similar exercise up the rev band. Unless someone decides to tailgate me like the other night, of course, then it gets much more exercise (not sure what he thought he had under the bonnet of his diesel Passat, but..)