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43 messages, Last post on Aug 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM
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Replying to: boaz47 (Feb 08, 2008 7:53 am) I don't live in the flatlands and I often shift the Steptronic in my Fiver when descending the hills in my area or driving twisty roads. The console shifter is well set-up for this type of shifting. You don't have to look at it and you can do it all by feel, much as you would a manual. OTOH, you can't imagine the frustration I feel when driving my MIL's Buick in hilly country, with it's sloppy column shifted three-speed it is nearly impossible to make a clean shift into 2nd, in fact it is difficult to select Reverse even though it's right next to Park. Funny thing is both A/Ts are MY 2000, made by GM (which builds gearboxes for BMW in Strasbourg, France. If I have to drive an autobox give me a good console mounted shifter and/or paddles.
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Replying to: andys120 (Feb 20, 2008 12:09 pm)
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Replying to: corvette (Feb 20, 2008 2:28 pm) LeSabre Custom. |
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My Dad had a '89 LeSabre and it had a 4 speed. Edmunds only went back to 1990, but the 1990 LeSabre had a 4 speed http://www.edmunds.com/used/1990/buick/lesabre/568/standard.html The 2000 LeSabre definitely had a 4 speed http://www.edmunds.com/used/2000/buick/lesabre/8795/standard.html
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Replying to: xhe518 (Feb 21, 2008 9:25 am) My bad, then. It's still got a sucky shift pattern (if you could call it that)  .
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Replying to: andys120 (Feb 21, 2008 4:29 am) PRNOD21 p.s. It was a nice car back in 1989 - I remember it would get almost 30mpg on the highway...
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| other that Aesthetics there is very little reason to have a automatic shifter on the floor. If you insist on shifting yourself a paddle on the wheel might be ok but most people simply put it in drive and leave it there till they park. | |
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Replying to: xhe518 (Feb 21, 2008 9:34 am) PRNOD21 There's a circle around the D, but no seperate D (without a circle), the car goes into overdrive very early so you get no pickup driving around town but not great mileage (you're lucky to break 20). Highway mileage can be very good, I've hit 30 on a trip. My BMW does around 24C/29H and has plenty of power whenever you ring for it. |
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| My one and only automatic was a 1986 Merkur XR4Ti, and it had a gated shifter. I got used to it, but never really liked it (the gate or the automatic). I'm sure it's there to prevent people from shifting into the wrong gear, but it's annoying to have to hit each and every bump on the way from Park to Drive (snap right then down and to the left through Reverse and Neutral into Drive). Just another reason why my other vehicles are stick. | |
| Im a fan of the traditional stalk shifters. I dont like the stuff on the floor much. Too little storage space, and i find it annoying when you have to make it go through the gates like that. Im a stick-shift purist, but when I do drive automatics I like the stalk behind the wheel. | |
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