Manual shift has been on the decline for years and now the auto makers are feeling nostalgic about it? Something tells me that they really really don't want to be building EVs but the government is forcing them to. Where would Mad Max be without the noisy gas guzzlers?
The world's enchantment with automobiles would fade if EVs were to take over. I guess that's the idea, huh? Can't happen, of course, because nobody has an electric grid with the capacity to feed millions of electric cars. It'll pass and then we'll be back where we started.
I haven't driven in years because I burned out my wander lust in my youth but I'm still nostalgic for my 1968 Volvo with that awesome floor shift.
Daily manual driver here, if they made the fake shifter compelling enough I'd be perfectly happy using it. Tons of screens and fiddly options, now that's the fake stuff I wish they'd stop cramming into vehicles.
The equivalent for the first automobiles would be a pair of coconut shells you could "clop-clop" together and a tank of manure to occasionally squeeze out onto the road.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 17.5 ms ] threadThe world's enchantment with automobiles would fade if EVs were to take over. I guess that's the idea, huh? Can't happen, of course, because nobody has an electric grid with the capacity to feed millions of electric cars. It'll pass and then we'll be back where we started.
I haven't driven in years because I burned out my wander lust in my youth but I'm still nostalgic for my 1968 Volvo with that awesome floor shift.