Column Mounted Shifters

Column Mounted Shifters

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jayemm89

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130 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Just a post of curiosity really.... I watch a lot of movies and the column-mounted shifter appears in many of them. Obviously these being Hollywood films.

I've driven for a few years now (okay, nearly a decade) and been in all sorts of vehicles of all sorts of age and price but I've never encountered a column-mounted shifter.

I was just wondering are they that common in the states, are they still popular? They seem like an awful idea to me, but I suppose you'd get used to them...

jayemm89

Original Poster:

4,038 posts

130 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Mopar440 said:
Why is everyone commenting about automatic gearboxes when the OP has asked a question about (manual) column shifts?
Actually I was interested in column shifts in general, they seem quite novel. Didn't know the new 7 had one - I thought it was either a traditional auto stick or a rotary dial a la Jag