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

Ohh

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

Looks like cheese graters with safety filled holes

You had it on the left most side, not very convenient to engage, so you would only bother when you have parked

@Edog speaking of cheese graters, seems Mercedes is indeed the Apple of the automobile industry.

Ehh. They aren’t that big

Well, >used to be reliable, innovative brands

>newer products are outlandishly expensive and now need shitloads of accesories to make their products run effectively

The idea was that in a rally car they would have an actual e-brake handle actuated by the driver, locking the wheels in a smart way (a version of ABS) and a car would still have an actual purpose-made parking brake too

Not as stupid when you know the details