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Old April 23rd, 2005, 12:01 PM   #1
 
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Is it only me or other people realize that the logo on the mainsite is backwards and its actually in the first gear? :-/
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OMG I think ur right..look at the 5th Gear logo ppl's!!-Other way around.
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Not always, a Mercedes van has a different reverse gearbox, maybe some other cars too, this could be the final gear of a six speed gearbox.
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Not always, a Mercedes van has a different reverse gearbox, maybe some other cars too, this could be the final gear of a six speed gearbox.
If thats not true>>Viper>> images/smilies/smile.gif images/smilies/ohmy.gif images/smilies/mellow.gif images/smilies/wacko.gif images/smilies/oops.gif
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hmmm I was gonna redeem viper by saying that it could be one of those boxes like in the daewoos but... umm they don't have 6 gears and the reverse gear goes up next to first.... not down next to 2nd.
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Looks fine by me. images/smilies/blink.gif

images/smilies/think.gif Reverse down by the second gear, then up left one, down second, and so on...

OH wait ! ... That's a truck transmission. images/smilies/oops.gif

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You were saying...

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/transmission-intro.jpg
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Well Ok then. I was not so wrong after all. images/smilies/mrgreen.gif
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Yeah, first gear is in the upper left on a car.
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although it must be some gay LHD shit or something, since usually the layout is

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More pictures...

http://www.sedgoose.co.uk/photos/fer...20-%20Gate.jpg

http://www.sky.sannet.ne.jp/tsuno/diary/images/Ferrari-ShiftGate-01.jpg

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Thats one messed up gear bihus.. i m used to the normal ones..
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although it must be some gay LHD shit or something, since usually the layout is

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2-4-6-R
R varies. It's on the left side of most cars that I know. Left and down usually.
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It's down right on the vast majority of cars, for the simple reason that they're 5 Speeds.

and even on most 6 Speeds it's down right like on the RX-8
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Yeah, I was wrong.
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