Replace Shifter with Dial?

[melvimbe]

The truck seems to drive happier if I regularly caress the shifter. I'm happier too.


Never driven a vehicle with a dial, so perhaps I'd get used to it rather easily. I get that the shifter takes up a lot of space and is completely unnecessary. However, it's done, I don't want to have to stare at the button/dial/shifter to use it. I should be able to tell by feel that I've shifted and see what I'm in on the dash if I need to. I don't want something that I feel like I need to be gentle with either.

 

[Johnkn]

Put the exact carbon fiber shifter with +/- buttons from the 2019+ G2 in it and be done, it’s perfect.

Or put a ****-a$$ dial shifter in it, or better yet, push buttons on the dash like a ‘64 Chrysler.

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[Vader]

Buttons or dial so long as I had paddles would be fine.
Maybe they could incorporate the 4x4 shifting into this as well.

 

[Rico2]

My vote, center console CF shifter! "regularly caress"

My wife has the 2018 Navigator with the Piano Keys shifter. I wasn't sure how I'd like it but its pretty nice. I like how it's mounted in the center, functionally its seamless. I don't think I would enjoy a dial.

On that note; Looks like they took a lot of tech from the new Navigator into the Gen3's

 

[SilverBolt]

I prefer the current style of the Euro cars. The shifter basically just pivots forward or back. The "handle" doesn't actually move to a new position in the console.

 

[V8 Goat]

I personally can't stand the dial - I have it in my Explorer ST right now, and it drives me nuts. I can't wait to get back into a Raptor with the shifter, even though everyone seems to be complaining about the feel of them in the Gen3.

 

[sixshooter_45]

The Gen2 shifter is really nice, LOL!

 

[CoronaRaptor]

When/if they get rid of the shifter, I'd rather have buttons than the dial.

So lets go back in time 50 plus years, lol

 

[Jakenbake]

- "gated" auto shifters like lexus/toyota that enable you to throw the shifter in the right spot quickly using muscle memory



I’m not sure I have ever driven an automatic transmission, column or center console shifter, that didn’t have the detent for drive built in. I just pull the “trigger” to get it out of park, release “trigger” while pulling back through reverse, and then continue to pull back until it stops at drive.

 

[Winchester30]