The chosen gear of the seventeen year-old who has just obtained his first car. Usually utilised for maximum effect on the daily run into town to buy Cheese Pasties. The whine produced by the car whilst attempting to reach 30mph would impress any passer-by into believing, perhaps, that Micheal Schumacher had popped down to Greggs in his Ferrari.
Of course, the havoc it wreaked on the engine was of little concern, as the aforementioned seventeen year-old will have wrapped the car round a tree before he's eighteen.