Affordable cars with gated shifters

[carguy88]

Appart from Lambos, R8s and classic italians, what affordable cars can (or could not many years ago) be had with a gated shifter?

This is a gated shifter btw:

[XJ40]

Cheap Ferrari, eg. Mondial?

[carguy88]

XJ40 said:

Cheap Ferrari, eg. Mondial?

I was ruling those out as being an exotic and expensive to maintain.

I want to now if there are any affordable cars with them, or are they just for high end sportscars?

[Sinatra21]

Can't you just buy them and retro fit. I'm sure i've seen them for TT's, MR2's etc.

[balls-out]

Sinatra21 said:

Can't you just buy them and retro fit. I'm sure i've seen them for TT's, MR2's etc.

[nagsheadwarrior]

carguy88 said:

Appart from Lambos, R8s and classic italians, what affordable cars can (or could not many years ago) be had with a gated shifter?

This is a gated shifter btw:

Never noticed it before but the nasty black plastic switch gear in the pic looks pretty stty for a supercar.

Gated shifter sounds horribly American too,is there a better term for it?

Cant think of any normalish production cars that had such things, anything from TVR maybe?

Otherwise I presume Spykers had them but far from affordable yet I guess but got to have the best 1920s comic book interiors around imho.

[miniman]

What advantage do they give?

[kambites]

balls-out said:

Sinatra21 said:

Can't you just buy them and retro fit. I'm sure i've seen them for TT's, MR2's etc.

I think they're pretty "" even on cars they're OEM on, to be honest. Horrifically tacky looking things, and decidedly impractical.

[5STM5]

miniman said:

What advantage do they give?

Cool

[Triumph Man]

carguy88 said:

Appart from Lambos, R8s and classic italians, what affordable cars can (or could not many years ago) be had with a gated shifter?

This is a gated shifter btw:

Manual air conditioning? Good god!

On another note, I love gated shifters. Especially the click clack noise

[Willeh85]

kambites said:

I think they're pretty "" even on cars they're OEM on, to be honest. Horrifically tacky looking things, and decidedly impractical.

Just think of all the things you could drop in there by accident

[bungle]

[twazzock]

bungle said:

tasteful

[philip979]

twazzock said:

tasteful

Disgusting! Cheap and tacky add looking pointless add on!

Perfect in the 550 though!

[0a]

bungle said:

Brilliant!

Gated shifts are cool because they are in a Ferrari, that's it. I hate to imagine the amount of crap i'd drop down one.

[james280779]

nagsheadwarrior said:

Never noticed it before but the nasty black plastic switch gear in the pic looks pretty stty for a supercar.

Gated shifter sounds horribly American too,is there a better term for it?

Cant think of any normalish production cars that had such things, anything from TVR maybe?

Otherwise I presume Spykers had them but far from affordable yet I guess but got to have the best 1920s comic book interiors around imho.

I went to buy a 360, drove beautifully but.......... the plastic switchgear looked ste, the fuel gauge identical to the one in my brothers Toyota celica- I hated it everytime I looked down at the dash. I ended up buying something else.

[jbi]

mx-5 gated shifter

[morgrp]

Volvo did the "space ball" as an option - not gated but kind of similar... Sort of ....ish.....

[carguy88]

that mx-5 and TT are just tacky modifications... :/

[ezi]

morgrp said:

Volvo did the "space ball" as an option - not gated but kind of similar... Sort of ....ish.....

That's awesome