I hate all these new gear selectors too, I thought those Chryslers with the shift lever up on the middle of the dash were bad until I see some of this crap that is posted in the op's pictures. I honestly would not buy a vehicle because of some of those. My wife's new Explorer Sport still has a good old console shift that you can rest your right hand on and manually down shift if you like, but it does have those stupid paddle shifters, there is no reason for paddle shifters in a Ford SUV, come on, I mean it does run great but a Ferrari it is not.
Well --here we have it...Ford recalls 550K vehicles because of a shifter cable. This issue will get worse as we create all these quirky variations https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ford-recall-escape-fusion-transmission-cable/?ftag=CAD-03-10aaj8j
Dodge had an issue also. https://www.consumerreports.org/cars-driving/ram-recalls-pickup-trucks-over-gear-shifter-issue/ I was looking at buying a RAM 1500 and it had the "shift knob". I did not buy the Dodge but that was only part of the reason.
Of course you are going to find recalls if you go searching, just like you can find recalls for about any other reason you do a search. Let's just beat a dead horse. If you don't like them fine, don't buy anything with them. There are those of us that like them, should we go searching for positive reviews to beat the dead horse even further?
Here’s a shifter issue: on certain model years (not sure which ones) Chevrolet Colorado’s, the release mechanism of the shifter handle can break internally. When that happens, the cable won’t engage and you can’t move it through the gear selector and worse, the key won’t come out of the ignition if it happened to fail when you put it in park. I found this out on a Colorado forum I belong to (mine is a 2018; not affected). The fix? Take a shifter out of a Buick Envision of the same year and swap it out.
I have to remember not to click on this thread again. Its similar to our countries political environment, either my point of view is right or yours is wrong.... Can't seem to escape it.
I thought it was an interesting topic man, don't know how it went so far off topic. I will not click back on it either tho. You can always delete it, I did that to a couple of mine before when they headed off to the dark side.....
I dont see your point. If a 4 cylnder is the thing of the future why has no one put one in their Buick
I would have said the same thing about 4 cyls until I drove a Turbo Eagle Talon that would have easily cleaned my Corvette 0-60 (and probably ) 0-75.
Years ago I worked at a Carmax in their inventory department. Moving all cars 2000 and up with every shifter and transmission you could imagine. All of them I hated. You can imagine the joy when I was asked to move a 1987 manual vw golf and could actually feel the car and its controls for once.
Just stumbled upon this thread after it laid dormant 3+ years. Nobody mentioned big rigs yet, so here we go. I've been driving late model Freightliner Cascadias with the stalk mounted shifter controls positioned on the steering column right side. There's only D, N, and R for regular driving since the transmission is an autoshift, using a solenoid controller for the clutch. I can switch to manual mode when necessary. I've occasionally switched from D to R at highway speed. Shifts to neutral and you hear an alarm. Placing it back in D resumes power transfer. Occasionally I'm assigned a 2019 or 20 Volvo VN 670. Those have a touch panel on the lower dash for shifter control. Been a while, but I think it also has just D, N, and R, plus a manual mode button. It's a PITA to access. Hopefully Volvo engineers rectify that. They used to have a driver seat mounted handle similar to a manual gear shift knob. I really miss no clutch feathering 10, 12, 13, 15, or 18 gears up and down, especially pulling 100k tridem loads through the Canadian Rockies. Really I do miss that.
Yeah, super old thread! Dumbest one yet, new Tesla touch screen shift. And supposedly they're coming out with one that you only "think" about which way you want the car to go.
I hate most touch screens in newer cars. What you used to be able to do in one step now takes three or four or more. And you have to take your eyes off the road to do it. If I wanted to adjust the bass or treble in my old car I could reach up and turn a knob, all without taking my eyes off the road. Now I have to drill down through two or three screens to do it which requires me to be looking at the screen not the road.
The "mind reading" Tesla automatic shift thing actually "predicts" which gear you want. So if you pulled into a space forward, it will automagically selects reverse. Seems like a bad idea.
