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Originally Posted by kodos78
It doesn't bother me really. You don't interact with it much, and it's not in your way like the ones in the Odyssey/Sienna which is mounted to the left of the audio/HVAC controls. Now that design irks the heck out of me!
I think the rationale is this: Most of the women I know that want a minivan don't like column mounted shifters. They think it is a pickup truck. That's why my mom didn't want an Escalade -- thanks to the column mounted shifter.
And of course a floor mounted shifter eats up room -- and minivans are supposed to be spacious.
I think it works okay. I don't use the manumatic feature all that much (other than perhaps to hold a gear going downhill), so it doesn't make much of a difference for me. My wife likes it though  |
I will never understand women, lol.
Seems a column shifter would make much more sense , but, I am not a woman (thank god
).