In general car talk I'll probably still end up calling the tranny in question a 3spd with a granny low. 3 usable speeds with a granny low. For nothing else than that's how I grew up hearing it referred. Similarly with 3 on the tree. It's not on the column, well I mean it is there on the column, but it is certainly not how you say it.
It would also matter who you are talking to as well. Just mentioning the number of gears after saying theres a clutch could be confusing to some. Just stick shift would suffice. I would describe the 700r4 as a 4 spd. Now if I'm talking to a fellow car person there might be a joke somewhere in there about damn near having a granny low first. 3 usable speeds after you get out of first. But what do I know, I'll say anything.
We're a bit nicer around here but don't get out on FB in the truck pages calling it a 3 speed cuz they'll be calling you a *******, an idiot, you don't know ****, etc etc. We won't do that here, but just saying, I'd take the advice and call it what it actually is, a 4 speed with granny low. Any transmission has 4 forward gears, no matter how low they are is a 4 speed. One of the roll backs I drive is a 10 speed semi truck transmission. I usually start off in 3rd or 4th gear cuz I simply rarely need 2nd or 3rd unless I'm hauling a heavy ass ambulance but we don't call it a 6 speed cuz I start off in 4th.
Just making the suggestion for your own good. It's kinda like these ******* libtard gun grabbing idiots that want to talk guns and call a magazine a clip. It's not a fukin clip. A clip goes in an SKS or an M1 Garande but most handguns and AR's use magazines. So here they want to talk guns but they look like idiots doing it when they can't even get the terminology correct.
