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I hate that manually shifting my car's automatic transmission is back to upshift and forward to downshift. It is so counter-intuitive. I desperately want to push for upshift and pull for downshift. After 8 years of occassional use, I still can't program my brain to pull for upshift and push for downshift.
The paddles on the wheel are even worse because they turn with the wheel. They should be mounted on the steeing column so I always know where the paddle is. Everytime I make a 90 degree turn, my hands are out of place for using a paddle, so I either have to rev the snot out of the engine, slow down and wait until the paddle comes back to hand, or reach down for the shifter.
It is idiotic.
My ride is like that. Backwards.
I like using manual shifting on the trails, going down long grades where I want to hold a speed. And sometimes it is fun to run through the gears.
When I traded my old pickup in on the one I have now, the old one had a manual transmission. The salesperson could not drive a manual. I miss manuals. However, automatics are becoming super reliable and make the whole system that is a modern automobile integrated in all systems I have other worries.
Push buttons are nothing new. Rotate a knob to shift gears is fine with me, too. I honestly think some people look for things to complain about.
You know that every time someone starts a discussion about something on this forum it turns into a free for all about something else. Others on here hijack it and start a whole debate on something else. People just can’t help but start rambling on about a different subject that’s completely different than the original post. No we’re in the original post was their a mention on manual transmissions but someone had to stick their 2 cents in about them. The subject was about the disappearing automatic transmission shifter and going to a dial selector, or the F150 hiding shifter when you want a folding little platform.
Nowhere in the OP was it even called a "shifter", but simply the "it", presumably the shifter mentioned un the 3-word title. What language in the OP excluded a certain type of "shifter"?
Nowhere in the OP was it even called a "shifter", but simply the "it", presumably the shifter mentioned un the 3-word title. What language in the OP excluded a certain type of "shifter"?
It is what it is either except it or don’t it’s the way things are going to be in the automotive industry.
Umm...I do. I find it strange that so many people DON'T drive with both hands most of the time.
Long before MADD was a thing and before open container laws & 0.08 BAC laws were enacted, I'd drive for miles using my thigh. How else would you hold your beer and shift the car? Or look at a paper map driving somewhere unfamiliar? Or operate the CB radio?
Long before MADD was a thing and before open container laws & 0.08 BAC laws were enacted, I'd drive for miles using my thigh. How else would you hold your beer and shift the car? Or look at a paper map driving somewhere unfamiliar? Or operate the CB radio?
Correct we didn’t have cell phones back in my time and GeoffD time. Our navigation system was a paper map that was hell try to refold. Then like he said had to have a hand free to drink our black label beer. I could steer and shift with one hand, we were raised in a different time that’s all. We didn’t have all these rules on how your suppose to drive. Boy those were the good ole days. And i forgot i had to have a hand free to smoke and flick my cigarette out the vent widow.
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