I hope the season has been a rocking one for you and your loved ones
what a wholesome rockposter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-leg_gearbox#/media/File:Manual_Layout.svg
oh shit
That's the issue on Merc 190E from 1985
tfw i would reverse on a stop sign
It makes a mechanically simple transmission, at the cost of learning to operate it
https://hips.hearstapps.com/roa.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/14/47/546b13f109846_-_cosworthshifter-lg.jpg?crop=1xw:1.0xh;center,top&resize=480:*
they did make it harder to engage the reverse
You need to press it down and go more left than the first gear to engage
So at the stop light you'd just struggle
And then remember that it is different
Wasn't auto-boxes already there in 85 in american cars?
I don't want automatic
Also it was a sequential automatic
>automatic
yikes
Better than hydraulic, but not by much
Why tf would they innovate on a mechanical gearbox anyway? Leave it as it is
Good ol' stick shifts were good.
Modern DSG, now that's an automatic I can stand behind
yep
Well... 190E and all that group was a homologation car for a Merc 190Evo rally version
I thought the Japs were the carmakers to go for stick shifts.
It had to shave every little bit of weight they could
And dog-leg gearbox is smaller, with fewer parts, and thus lighter
While also being very reliable and just as sturdy as normal gearbox
It also had handbrake as a pedal, btw
E-brake as a pedal, hmm
Rather prefer a toyota transmission to that imo
Super cliche but love me some Nippon reliability
To this day the FJ40 shits on any G-Wagen, Defender or Wrangler ever built.
Not an e-brake
Same cable-activated parking brake, just made as a 4th pedal
Ohh
Mercedes kinda like the Apple of the car industry... or is Apple the Mercedes of tech?
It would also conveniently automatically disengage if you pressed the normal brakes
So you could never drive with parking break on
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NGcAAOSw~fpZjaPf/s-l300.jpg
Can't find the photo of the pedals, this is the next best thing
