i'm sure that there will be auto's that have been fitted to beefier motors that will have longer gearing

having driven auto's for a while now i can safely say that no 2 will be the same

it all depends on the the torque the engine is kicking out as well as the box bolted to it so in the 24V granada it's nice and simple to get accelration with just a prop of the pedal without getting kickdown, whereas the mondeo needs the kickdown to get it going, otherwise you just raise the revs and don't go anywhere

with the bigger beemer's and merc etc, and not just with the newer models, you'll have the sports switch and econom switch as well as the normal setting but i'm not sure how these are controled other than there is some clever electrickery going on
eco mode gives you an upshift as soon as there is enough spin to change gears hgher, normal is the normal mode and sports holds onto the gears right up until the red line
so in the case of the skoda 6 speed autoi had, lifting off from rest would see you change into second gear at as low a speed as 2 mph, but even mashing your foot to the floor wouldn't see you hitting 60 before the box had changed up into 4th

can't see the wikipedi links but the auto works with a simple paddle wheel in the torque converter that sends fluid round other bits of the box that do the changing up and down (you have the torque converter which is a big bowl bolted to the flywheel and inside it indipendalty is a paddle wheel which is linked ot the gearbox, so you don't actually have direct drive from one to the other, but the fluid in the bowl siwshes about and turns the paddle which in turn turns the insides of the box, that's about as far as i need to know and the kickdown is in 3 ways, either manual when the selector is shifted, electic when you mash the pedal and it activates the kickdown or normal as in when the fluid speeds cahnge in the box