Shifter location on the 2014 9C1 & 9C3

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Shifter location on the 2014 9C1 & 9C3

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OK folks, please tell me my eyes are playing tricks on me. Everyone is referring to the transmission shift lever on the 2014 Caprices as a "Column shifter" or alluding to the fact the "shifter is moved to the steering column". Well, take a good close look at the spy picture that was released. The shifter that is pictured is NOT a column shifter. It is a dashboard shifter, it comes out of the dash to the right of the column, the lever then makes a 90 degree turn and acts like a standard column shifter.

They could have done just that as easily with a push button shifter. Someone tell me I'm seeing things... I can understand the sentiment for police officers being addicted to column shift, but this just looks....weird.... to say the least.

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Re: Shifter location on the 2014 9C1 & 9C3

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elc32955 wrote:OK folks, please tell me my eyes are playing tricks on me. Everyone is referring to the transmission shift lever on the 2014 Caprices as a "Column shifter" or alluding to the fact the "shifter is moved to the steering column". Well, take a good close look at the spy picture that was released. The shifter that is pictured is NOT a column shifter. It is a dashboard shifter, it comes out of the dash to the right of the column, the lever then makes a 90 degree turn and acts like a standard column shifter.

They could have done just that as easily with a push button shifter. Someone tell me I'm seeing things... I can understand the sentiment for police officers being addicted to column shift, but this just looks....weird.... to say the least.

Eric
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Re: Shifter location on the 2014 9C1 & 9C3

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Sorry, mind was obviously somewhere else when I was writing that post....

http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor. ... D40020766F

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