Look at every race car in the world with a sequential gear box. Is that enough evidence for you? Think I mentioned that earlier too.
Sorry if you're offended, no offence was intended to anyone - just telling it as I see it is all. I state facts when they're black and white and if my opinion is right based on evidence I have given and yours is wrong, so be it. It doesn't mean I don't respect your opinion. I do - you're entitled to it.
Cheers mate!
May I turn this push-pull sticky debate around by 90 degrees? Can anyone explain to me the logic of the sequential gate being on the passenger side of the transmission tunnel? I find this a bigger issue than the push-pull orientation (seriously!). I'm roughly 5 foot 6" (yes, vertically challenged) and no amount of g-force orientation is going to make that manual upshift any easier to reach Lucky the R36 has telescopic paddles... errr I mean steering wheel
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i'd guess it has something to do with all of them being developed in left hand drive countries.
That was what I thought too... except....
It's OK.... my height very rarely causes me trouble *cough*
Last edited by Radius; 12-08-2009 at 11:41 PM.
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Hmmm... How interesting. I wonder if the dealer can get a hold of the overseas model shifters so we can flick them towards us? I wonder if the tiptronic shifting can be reversed... Very interesting.
If only I could change the indicators to the other side too.
2 years and 40,000kms and I still have to think about which is the indicator or wipers. Embarassing to flash the lights at someone when I wanted a window wash.
Get back into my weekend Skyline and all seems natural.
That plus trying to change down with my shifter into a corner and indicate at the same time
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Man, that's just so much B/S. Apply that thinking to driving a manual car to see how ridiculous the argument is. After moving off in first, you can pull back to get 2nd gear, but after that you're stuffed.....you can't shift to 3rd because the lever has to be pushed forwards, and the massive G forces would prevent you from doing that ?????
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Hahahahahaha!!! Nowhere did I ever say it applied to H pattern gearboxes. Only sequential gearboxes. It's not BS at all. Seriously, you will not find a sequential gear box in ANY race car anywhere in the world that you have to push forward on the stick to shift up...... I also didn't mention G forces. Intertia yes, G forces, no.
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