{"id":57022,"date":"2009-12-01T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/01\/push-me-pull-you-randt-investigates-the-comings-and-goings-of-ge\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T13:59:00","slug":"push-me-pull-you-rt-investigates-the-comings-and-goings-of-gear-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/57022","title":{"rendered":"Push Me, Pull You: R&T investigates the comings and goings of gear changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it isn’t unusual to get into five or six different cars a month, you realize you spend a lot of time figuring out how, and how many ways, one can shift the gears in an automatic or double-clutch car. Where is the shifter? How many settings does the shifter have? How do I get into manual shift mode? Once there, how does it work? Are there paddle shifters as well? Do the paddle shifters move with the wheel or not? And so on…<\/p>\n

Road & Track<\/em> surveyed a number of automakers about how they set up their manual shifting modes. Some require you to push the lever forward to upshift, while for others that’s a downshift, and a couple demand you move the lever side-to-side. The 13 makers examined all have their reasons, the loose consensus being that the forward-for-downshift bunch is modeled after driving dynamics, the forward-for-upshift bunch based on intuitiveness and customer feedback.<\/p>\n

At least two makers have two cars that use different shifting methods. And if not for Subaru, Audi, and Porsche there’d be a nice way to classify the forward-for-upshift crowd as being for buyers who aren’t into sporting driving. As far as we’re concerned, forward should be for downshifts, and single-function paddles should be mounted on the wheel, not the column. But you can tell us what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n

[Source: Road & Track<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Push Me, Pull You: R&T investigates the comings and goings of gear changes<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Etc. When it isn’t unusual to get into five or six different cars a month, you realize you spend a lot of time figuring out how, and how many ways, one can shift the gears in an automatic or double-clutch car. Where is the shifter? How many settings does the shifter have? How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}