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I mentioned a few months ago I drew a Nissan Pathfinder as a rental. Picked it up after dark, and after starting it up and adjusting seat and mirrors, gave the shifter on the console a tug and I was away. When I attempted to back into a parking space, I couldn't get it out of drive. After pushing, lifting and poking the shifter, I realized there were buttons for park, neutral and reverse on top of the handle. Why the engineers thought a mix of two control types was a good idea I don't understand.

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Les, BMW's are like this too, my dad has a newerish X5 and it is the same thing, there is a stick but it has buttons on it as well. I hate it with a passion.

I rent cars a lot and it sometimes takes me a moment to figure out something that should be easy.

One of the reasons I love my 200 series LC is because it has an actual shifter in it.
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