CeeDub said:z0ner said:Are you bored? You already have seven posts on a forum for a car you don't have and don't ever plan on getting. Shouldn't you be on the Versa forum (assuming they even exist)?
I still may get one, my versa got totalled in a crash, now i'm considering getting a Leaf for myself, not my wife. Make more sense now? Bored? I'm not taking taking the time to count my posts..... I'm a lil suprised at the lack of common decent communication skills on here from some Leaf people...
johnrhansen said:It took me a minute to keep from getting mixed up with fwd and rev. It's opposite as to what I would intuitively think. But I got used to it.
johnrhansen said:I've usually had manual transmission cars, and the position of reverse is sometimes forward, sometimes back so I had no intuition to violate.
ObiQuiet said:Agreed, though I think it would be nice (better?) if one could tell forward from reverse by feel or position of a lever, without having to look at the dash.johnrhansen said:I've usually had manual transmission cars, and the position of reverse is sometimes forward, sometimes back so I had no intuition to violate.
ObiQuiet said:johnrhansen said:I've usually had manual transmission cars, and the position of reverse is sometimes forward, sometimes back so I had no intuition to violate.
Agreed, though I think it would be nice (better?) if one could tell forward from reverse by feel or position of a lever, without having to look at the dash.
CeeDub said:I think the leaf would be better served with a more regular shift pattern on the shifter. Just use the same "computer mouse" shifter and make it slide back and forth with the usual P R N D pattern with the B mode added after D. The side action seems totally unnecessary. Simple change that should cost Nissan almost nothing. I think it would appeal to a broader buyer base rather than just the early adopters and teck-savy buyers.
Agreed... interesting that the OP has decided to wipe out most of his posts.EVDRIVER said:I think you are in an extreme minority on this topic. Once of the issues with the LEAF is it is too much like a ICE car, sadly. If this kept you from buying the car then an EV is not for you, likely many consumer electronics as well.
AlaskaLEAF said:The shifter is the one thing on my LEAF that I hate. I hate that you push it FORWARD to go BACKWARD.
And I hate that you pull it BACKWARD to go FORWARD. What's up with that anyway? I don't drive the LEAF every day (because my husband has a more predictable schedule than I do, so he drives it regularly) but after three months of driving it 3-4 times a week I still do it backward.
I want to put it forward to go forward. How does that not make sense?
Nubo said:AlaskaLEAF said:The shifter is the one thing on my LEAF that I hate. I hate that you push it FORWARD to go BACKWARD.
And I hate that you pull it BACKWARD to go FORWARD. What's up with that anyway? I don't drive the LEAF every day (because my husband has a more predictable schedule than I do, so he drives it regularly) but after three months of driving it 3-4 times a week I still do it backward.
I want to put it forward to go forward. How does that not make sense?
Because of the hundreds of millions of other cars on the road that shift:
P
R
N
D
Nubo said:AlaskaLEAF said:The shifter is the one thing on my LEAF that I hate. I hate that you push it FORWARD to go BACKWARD.
And I hate that you pull it BACKWARD to go FORWARD. What's up with that anyway? I don't drive the LEAF every day (because my husband has a more predictable schedule than I do, so he drives it regularly) but after three months of driving it 3-4 times a week I still do it backward.
I want to put it forward to go forward. How does that not make sense?
Because of the hundreds of millions of other cars on the road that shift:
P
R
N
D
Ohhhh. I've never had an automatic before....my other cars are all manual shift. I guess that makes sense, but I still do it backward. Probably I'll learn eventually...
Nubo said:AlaskaLEAF said:The shifter is the one thing on my LEAF that I hate. I hate that you push it FORWARD to go BACKWARD.
And I hate that you pull it BACKWARD to go FORWARD. What's up with that anyway? I don't drive the LEAF every day (because my husband has a more predictable schedule than I do, so he drives it regularly) but after three months of driving it 3-4 times a week I still do it backward.
I want to put it forward to go forward. How does that not make sense?
Because of the hundreds of millions of other cars on the road that shift:
P
R
N
D
CeeDub said:the only cars where reverse was not backwards was VW from the 1980s, every other car out there practically has reverse backwards..... especially Japanese cars. It just makes sense, push it forward, go forward. Human nature.
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