Last month, two of my mates and myself went for a drive in a mitsubishi express (L200)... needless to say, there wasn't much room left in the car with all of us cramed in...

So it was decided that we would use 1st, 3rd and 5th gears... I think that gives you an idea of how much room there was...

Long story short, we pulled out of a side street and started going up a pretty big hill... and second was needed, so 1st to 2nd... then 5800rpm straight into 5th (back to 1800rpm)... and it was unbelievable, the ute just pulled up the hill.... didn't even need to go back a gear... all from a stock driveline with 430,000k's on it...