Keep Oppo Column Shift

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 01/11/2017 at 20:21 • Filed to: None

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Dying breed, here.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 20:24

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I have a Town Car with a column shifter and an XJ8 with a weirdo J-Gate and driver seating like a fighter jet. I much prefer the latter, personally.

404 - User No Longer Available > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 20:29

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Call me crazy, but the entire time I was driving the Micra I kept trying to column shift, thinking it was a van.

E90M3 > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 20:31

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ITs a dying breed unless you keep in mind the some of the F-series trucks have column shifters. 

Alfalfa > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 20:39

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Oh look, another excuse to post BRONCO.

shop-teacher > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 20:40

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Bench seat and column shifters FTW!

A Colorado/Canyon would be the perfect next truck for me, but only if they decide to offer a bench seat and column shifter.

Jcarr > E90M3 01/11/2017 at 20:43

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I think some GM trucks still do as well.

E90M3 > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 20:46

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And some of their vans, like the express. Those actually handle driving down lease roads at speed pretty well.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 20:55

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Full-size GM trucks and vans will probably have column shifters until the world ends.

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 21:02

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Does the stalk shifter in Mercedes count?

They don’t count for me. I have two vehicles with real column shifters.

Alfalfa > shop-teacher 01/11/2017 at 21:02

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Bench seat all the things!

shop-teacher > Alfalfa 01/11/2017 at 21:14

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Yes!

I’ve said this many times, but whichever company grows the balls to sell me a new crew cab truck with two plaid bench seats, gets my money.

Phatboyphil > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 21:26

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I need an old car with a column shift auto, V8, and bench seats in my life :(

Jcarr > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 01/11/2017 at 21:38

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That seems right to me. A console shifter in a truck just feels weird.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > shop-teacher 01/11/2017 at 21:44

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FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Jcarr 01/11/2017 at 21:58

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Hmmm... cars I have owned:

2 column shift automatics (both of which had bucket seats oddly enough)

2 console shift automatic automatics

3 manuals (all console shift nothing weird for me)

I just don’t get the point of putting an automatic shifter in the console. Just seems to waste space. Especially in a FF transverse layout, even if it is mechanical it’s not like it’s somehow closer to the transmission or anything. When I was 16 my dad bought an Olds Intrigue with the console shifter. Everything we’d had up to that point besides a cheap Cavalier and a manual S10 had been a column shift (an array of yawnworth Chevy and Ford sedans, wagons, and minivans). I remember being on the test drive and asking the salesman why they wasted so much space by putting the shifter there when they could’ve had a bench seat or at least another cup holder. He said it was sportier. I asked why the hell an Oldsmobile was trying to be sporty. My dad told me to shut up.

Cé hé sin > Jcarr 01/12/2017 at 04:46

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You haven’t seen a Hilux.

Jcarr > Cé hé sin 01/12/2017 at 09:01

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Sadly no. No Hilux in the States.

Cé hé sin > Jcarr 01/12/2017 at 09:50

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Oh well.

Have a Hilux interior, with six on the floor.

On the other hand, the Hiace van began with a column change, as so:

Jcarr > Cé hé sin 01/12/2017 at 10:22

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I should have clarified: Floor shifter feels normal when it’s a manual, strange when it’s an auto.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Jcarr 01/12/2017 at 16:02

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You are right, it eats up way to much space in the cab.