Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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5 speed Ferraris have reverse above first…like most racing inspired 5 speed shift patterns.
“Straight” First to second shifts are great for 0-60 times but are not as important as the H pattern where it counts while on track.
Add to it you never go from 5th to 2nd so there is limited probability of jumping to reverse if something goes wrong.
Yup, that's usually called a dog leg pattern. Lots of homologation cars use that pattern as well as cars that manufacturers want to have a racy image.
190e Cosworths, 928's, Countach, E30 M3, Stratos (and by extension the Stratos HF Zero I posted above) all have doglegs. It used to be a point of pride, now most people have never heard of it.
Beautiful car that may or may not have a dogleg, for your enjoyment.
What kind of Churros are they selling?
Adding to the dog pile which will eventually bring DirtyD’s wrath down upon us all; Volkswagen has used a “down and over” pattern for years; requiring you to push the shift knob down towards the trans tunnel, then left and back/down.
Now back to scantily clad ladies and good humor.
Fiat also has a push down hard gate into reverse.
Spicy Fiat with such a shift pattern.
My old VW Jetta wasn’t quite as much fun as I bet that would be.
I have a Jetta and an X1/9, can confirm, the X1/9 is twice the fun with half the horsepower. I hope to be making 70hp right now, but its a blast, second most fun I've had in a <100hp car.My old VW Jetta wasn’t quite as much fun as I bet that would be.
The first most fun was in one of these.
I might have once eradicated a hornet’s nest on a hiking trail with a 12 gauge loaded with #9 shot. Effective
Nobody wants to see two weird faggy old dudes cuddle. Yick…
A buddy in high school bought a ‘79(I think) Camaro with a 3 speed like the top left pattern. Of course before school we were tearing around some roads just outside of town in it. His other car was something with a down-and-right reverse. He decided to do a burnout at a stop sign but got so excited he forgot the new pattern. Once the tires hooked up we started going backwards really fast… That was funProbably depends on the car/transmission.
One I recall having it was off to the left and up, parallel more or less with first.
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Looks like Unimog shift levers
@akmike47 I found this girl just for you. Well, me too actually…
