Tag: Shifter

04 APR

2018 Range Rover Velar: A rotary shifter done right

Back in February, editor Reese Counts expressed his beef with the rotary shifter in the long-term Jaguar F-Pace. In short, the shifter wouldn’t rotate into either drive or reverse. Now, I’ve personally never experienced such an issue with that shifter design since it was unveiled in the original (and awesome) Jaguar XF. Yet, that early […]

26 DEC

1.8 million Ram trucks recalled to fix shifter problem

Fiat Chrysler is recalling 1.8 million mostly heavy-duty Ram pickups to fix a part that could allow the truck to shift out of park and roll without depressing the brake pedal, a problem the automaker knows to be potentially related to seven injuries and a “small number” of accidents. The company says tests revealed that […]

10 JUL

GMC Set Aside Three Hours to Show That Its New Electronic Shifter Isn’t Confusing

– GMC seems confident its new Electronic Precision Shift (EPS) gear selector is not just another confusing electronic shifter, despite introducing confusion by denoting it with the acronym EPS, which is the typical shorthand for electric power steering. But the truck brand nevertheless set aside almost three hours of time at General Motors’ Milford Proving Ground for […]