Street Gear Poll

I figure most street engines should be build around the gear choice. When your deciding the amount of driviblity your willing to lose for performance, gears being one of the main considerations. When it comes to race engines as long there's no gear rule you can build the engine and gear it to work same with street engine but most want to stay in the 3??:1 range. Really most cars are way under gear especially low performance cars. Take a car that makes peak power at 4500 rpm and could do the quarter mile at 80 mph not a real rocket ship but would need 4.56:1 plus gears to hit it's powerband.