Reverse

[ipothas]

inb4 feed the troll

[Ft-86 Please]

I didn't know the answer either only drove a 5 speed and never been in a car with a 6 speed...

[camelflage]

Originally Posted by ashtray

The fun part is switching between driving my 6 speed and 5 speed cars. The Miata's 5 speed is geared so you're at 4k rpm on the highway - so if you forget which car you're in, there's that natural inclination to shift into 6th - well, except that's exactly where Reverse gear is on the Miata!

i constantly tried shifting my beater civic into 6th gear, and the weird thing is, i've never owned a 6 speed...

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Bad quality video, but you get the point.

Pains me to see them do that to the crx, but it's an interesting video anyway.

[NOHOME]

Nobody who has driven mine has figured out the reverse lock out without my telling them. I think I had to sit for a while before I figured it out myself.

[einzlr]

Originally Posted by chulooz

With some of these threads you would think this is a 'new to cars' forum more than one that supports a sports car.

Well, these cars are attractive to young people for many reasons and there *are* a lot of young people on here who are new to cars. Let's help them learn

Originally Posted by Kunzite

For 6 speed manual transmissions (there could be exceptions).
For 5 speed transmissions, some don't have such protection mechanism; and I know (old) cars with 4 speed transmissions, on which the reverse is where the 5th would be (no protection, either).

Can you name some examples? I've never encountered an MT car - even decades ago before dirt existed - that didn't have some sort of protection mechanism for reverse. It varies by make, not so much by how many gears there are.

[13 FR-S Veteran]

This isnt a new feature by any means. One only need look as far as just about any late 70's to early 80's VW manual transmission.

[Kunzite]

The 4-speed transmission car I'm talking about was the Oltcit with french gearbox. An Oltcit, by the way, was a Romanian made car which was actually a licensed Citroen Axel (more or less contemporary with the Citroen Visa, though the Romanians made it until '94 or '95). It was a hatchback sporting an aircooled 4 cylinders boxer engine, and it's front ventilated disks were in the engine compartment, next to the gearbox. Handbrake was on the front wheels, but there were some unsuccessful projects to move it on the back wheels.
I had an Oltcit, but with a (Romanian made) 5 speed gearbox; reverse was right and down, un-protected.

My current car, a MY 2008 Toyota Auris, also have a 5-speed manual gearbox; the reverse - guess what - has no protection mechanism. When I select reverse, I'm just moving the lever right and down, and that's it.
The current Auris have a 6-speed gearbox, with it's protection (pull up) ring.

By the way, I agree it's not a new feature - on the contrary. What I'm saying is that it wasn't and it's not used in every car (I'm talking about 5-speed or less gearboxes).