• 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    My wife really wants a car with a push button shifter. But every time I see a short of one of them getting towed with an that won’t start, it’s either a real chore to get it into neutral or you pretty well can’t without a special tool. So they just stick them on skids and winch them onto the bed in park. That’s nice for the parking pawl, I guess.

    We have a 2012 Civic and a 2010 Sequoia. Neither of them need to be started to shift into neutral. They don’t even need power. Just stick a tool into the release and put the shifter wherever you want it.

    I also have a manual Prelude. To get it to roll, all you need is to put down the parking brake. I’m going out of my way to make my next daily driver a manual. I’ve got my eyes set on a 10th gen Honda Accord. I want a big sedan with a stick, partly for the lolz, but mostly because I’ve dailied enough crappy automatics that I just don’t wanna anymore.