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

[Tadhg Tiogar]

CX pseudo "cobra head" shift. And no marks showing what position it's in:

 

[SierraMikeHotel]

Double Mercedes content.

 

It's really wank, but I love the emblem embedded in the top of the shifter.

 

 

This is actually where the thing ought to be.  With modern technology it could be anywhere in the car - so let's have it literally at your fingertips.

 

 

Both cars have pointless flappy paddles.

[Asimo]

That V5 Bora from the eBay thread yesterday.

 

 

A briar pipe with a 13mm socket in the bowl?

[Honey Badger]

Behold my shiny knob.

 

Stock photo so not my actual car, my RX is the same just with a fine layer of filth and 300 Aldi car park tickets scattered added

 

[warren t claim]

The natural place for an automatic gearbox selector lever is on the steering column.

[Six-cylinder]

CX pseudo "cobra head" shift. And no marks showing what position it's in:

 

IMG_20180303_170907.jpg

 

Do you not have gear position lights on the dash?

 

This is my S1, but I thought S2 had position lights as well?

[iainrcz]

This had an auto box.

And the shifter looked like this

 

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[SierraMikeHotel]

My word, that's a lot of buttons.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Took a bit of head scratching and fiddling with the mouse thing until I spotted the gear selector in one of these the first time I drove it.

 

To my knowledge the only car to copy the Mopars of the 50's and 60's

 

Although, no doubt someone knows better...

[Supernaut]

At the other end of the scale...

 

My friend's 2005 Suzuki Alto automatic.

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

The Leyland P76 had provisions for left hand drive mounting, on a car that was right hand drive only.

 

 

The same T-bar featured on the Aussie spec Marina.

 

[anonymous user]

Took a bit of head scratching and fiddling with the mouse thing until I spotted the gear selector in one of these the first time I drove it. image.jpeg

 

To my knowledge the only car to copy the Mopars of the 50's and 60's

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Although, no doubt someone knows better...

Well there was Bristol, but it's probably the same box.

[JimH]

Automagic? No not me. I'm definitely a manual...

 

 

You ain't seen me, roight.

 

[pshome]

Tagora shifter is of course square

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Do you not have gear position lights on the dash?

 

This is my S1, but I thought S2 had position lights as well?

 

Indeed it does, in a slightly unusual place because avantgarde design*.....

 

[iainrcz]

My word, that's a lot of buttons.

Yes, and I only remember using the gearbox sports mode button and seat heater dial.

 

Oh yeah for extra points, the gear lever had an orange "mood light" ring in it.

 

I actually miss that car, it was comfy and went like a bastard.

 

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[davehedgehog31]

At the other end of the scale...

 

My friend's 2005 Suzuki Alto automatic.

 

 

I cannot possibly imagine how slow that car is. The one I had with the same engine and five speed manual, you had to seriously wring it out. I had to drop two cogs to get up the hill on the M77 heading out of Glasgow at 55.

 

Also, the road tax for mine was £30, the auto with same engine is £190. 

[Asimo]

We've had this already, but the image link is dead and it's my all-time favourite - the BMC landcrab.

 

 

 

At the other end of that control is a Borg Warner 35 'box.

[Guest Hooli]

Has anyone ever driven an automatic with the +\- ‘manual’ mode and it not been utterly dreadful?

 

Flappy paddles in my old Saab worked well for hoonage. Pretty instant change & meant I could make it hold gears correctly for corners.

[PhilA]

 

Because you need your gears to be in the order NDLR instead of PRNDL for added joviality.

 

Phil

[pandamonium]

Drove a 2005 Transit automatic a few years ago, it was horrid. 

 

Check out the "shifter"

 

(Steering wheel and dashboard)

 

 

[Guest Hooli]

The correct style of autobox shifter. J-gates are so natural to use I've no idea why other makes persist with inferior layouts.

[Noel Tidybeard]

AKA the Randle handle ^^^