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Gearbox

A gearbox is like a magic machine in a car that helps it go faster or slower. Imagine you have a bicycle with two different sizes of sprockets - one is big and one is small. When you pedal with the big sprocket, your bike goes slow but it's easy to pedal. But when you use the small sprocket your bike goes faster but it's harder to pedal.

A gearbox works the same way, it changes how fast or slow the engine in the car spins, which in turn makes the car go faster or slower. The gearbox has different gears that can be used depending on how fast you want to go. For example, when you're driving slowly in traffic, you use first or second gear. But when you're driving on the highway, you use a higher gear like fourth or fifth gear.

The gearbox is controlled by the driver with a stick that moves back and forth - this is how you change gears. When you push the clutch pedal, it disengages the gears which allows you to change them. When you release the clutch pedal, the gears engage again and you're in a new gear.

In summary, a gearbox is a special machine that helps the car go faster or slower by changing how fast the engine spins. It does this using different gears which can be changed by the driver using a stick.
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