Shifty McShift Face - the automatic gear-stick celebration thread (potential for Junkman approval?)

[Guest Hooli]

Flappy paddles are useful to demand another gear if it's being troublesome ... as you've found.

 

TBH since curing the fluid leak & putting some back in it, it's never needed that much interference.

[djimbob]

I bloody love automatics, and my faves have to be Jags I guess for sheer class, and absolute pet peeves are gearshifts encased in a leather (or faux) gaiter - no need, they just attract muck and confuse me from a distance!

 

My old Daimler XJ40 with walnut veneer knob was total class, previous XJ6 series was most excellent also, sorry I never had any pics of it now

 

 

Goddammit I miss that car

[rantingYoof]

I am so pleased I started this thread. When I see an older vehicle parked up, particularly at a show, I try to perv at the gear shift manual or automatic. Autos are always more interesting.

[Lacquer Peel]

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[cort16]

Those push buttons are the right idea. Anyone who's ever had an auto puts it in 2nd the first day they get it to see what happens then spends the rest of the time with it in Drive. It's a massive waste of cabin space.

[Lacquer Peel]

[cort16]

[djimbob]

Dodge caravan - nice

 

Dull Merc

 

 

Less attractive Daimler 6 litre v12 dear knob!

 

 

more to come no doubt

[Lacquer Peel]

 

Cue Alcyone Corp. fury.

[djimbob]

Pug

 

 

Of several shiters!

 

 

 

They tried at least!

 

 

Have some transit action!

 

 

Functional Saab - not exactly inspiring

 

[SiC]

Aston Martin Vanquish gear selector buttons. Very boring. Best bit is the great noises it makes when you press the start button. You can tell some engineer dedicated many years of his life to get that noise just right.

 

[rantingYoof]

The red button. OMG the red button!

 

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[barefoot]

Why doesn't the Jaguar J gate let you select 1st gear?

[alcyonecorporation]

 

Cue Alcyone Corp. fury.

 

My SVX is fixed nao. 

[Eddie Honda]

I like the layout of the AP gearboxes found attached to the BL A-series and E-series.

 

When they first appeared in the Mini 1965 it was something like this R N 1 2 3 4 D:

 

 

Later in the Metro it was something like this P R N 1 2 3 D:

 

 

The Allegro and Maxi had a different handle, but the order was the same: P R N 1 2 3 D

 

From memory, I think it freehwheeled in some gears, but not others.

[Eddie Honda]

Why doesn't the Jaguar J gate let you select 1st gear?

COS IT WUD B A U-GATE!

[rantingYoof]

As I've mentioned previously, I'm currently in MotherYoofs 2008 Astra 1.8 VVTi with its wonderful 4spd automatic illustrated thusly:

 

 

Now, I maintain putting the 140hp 1.8 into the Astra was a great decision m9, but as you can see with no overdrive/kick-down/SPORT button or anything getting it to kickdown basically requires stern verbal correspondence coupled with brisk movements of the right foot.

 

While a bit awkward, you can obviously put it in 2nd or 3rd yourself, and the acceleration is astonishingly brisk and it tends to be joined by a rather marvellous noise for a smallish 4 pot.

 

However, this engine+gearbox combo combined with an annual mileage of around 800 (although it's barely moved this year) and an average journey length of around 2 miles means fuel consumption in this particular model is, well...

 

I have got 43 out of it on a longish run. I imagine the manual is a bit better on this front.

[uk_senator]

Why doesn't the Jaguar J gate let you select 1st gear?

When your in sports mode it automatically starts in 1st.

[MorrisItalSLX]

The automatic 4WD shifter on my Dad's Pajero (Shogun) SUCKS

 

 

(Image shamelessly stolen from the internet)

 

It is so unresponsive and it is very hard to find the actual positions, give me a good-old-fashioned transfer box any day.

 

In regards to the love it or loath it Jaguar "T" stick, I love it.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I've driven a few autos and genuinely don't know why I haven't owned one...

 

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[eddyramrod]

I've owned loads and genuinely can't understand why anyone would deliberately buy manual now.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I've owned loads and genuinely can't understand why anyone would deliberately buy manual now.

I think I'm slowly coming round to that conclusion, most of the cars I've owned recently especially the XM and v70 have left me thinking "this car would be ace as an auto"

 

As I get older I'm shaking the macho men drive manuals mindset, I've the motorbike to feel all manly on.

 

I think when it's time to shift the XM on I'll look at an XJ6 (X300)

 

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[Eddie Honda]

Honda Jizz

 

 

[Pillock]

Why doesn't the Jaguar J gate let you select 1st gear?

Because it's British, so it's broken. There's probably a cheese sandwich stuck in it from the production line.

 

/PubCarBore

[nacho man]

I have mainly been driving this auto all week

 

 

It's all electrical obvs, but when it won't do what you want it to do, I yank it like it's mechanical expecting something to happen then your realise, or it tells you on the dash what your doing wrong, you correct your error and it does what you want.

 

8 speed zf attached to this.

 

 

I think the neighbours think I am selling dope.

 

 

 

 

 

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[eddyramrod]

Fuck, that's ugly!  I'd have to park it three streets away and walk to it in disguise.

 

In fact no, I just wouldn't ever want to be within three streets of it.

 

If you chose it, well sorry, but eye of the beholder and all that.

[Supernaut]

This thread is really giving me the horn for another LS400 or similar.

 

Somebody buy my Xantia, g'wan!

[Noel Tidybeard]

this is what mine should look like