Atavan Groundhog 8x8 magic torque-generating gearbox?

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I have to call this out otherwise my inner physics nerd won’t stop yelling at me :

when the gearing is set to 100%, the speed is 114 km/h for an acceleration of 7.7
however, at 58%, the speed goes up to 197 km/h while the acceleration remains high at 6.8

The speed increases by 73% (1.73 is indeed roughly 1/1.58) while the acceleration drops off by only 12% (0.88 is about 1/1.14).

My inner physicist is yelling at me that with such a speed increase, torque should drop to 58% or about 4.5 acceleration..

Someone please explain to me what’s goin’ on with that gearing.

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sometimes the final drive adjustment can be really weird on some cars, but I’d say that acceleration overall doesn’t get affected as much as you would expect considering that each individual gear is stretched out by only around 10-20 km/h

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