Redpill me on exotic shift patterns why do some of them even exist?

Redpill me on exotic shift patterns why do some of them even exist? I can maybe understand back in the 30s when the gearbox was designed on paper and machined by hand but why did the beetle have a star pattern shifter in the 60s?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Thats a common shift pattern for race cars.

    Its because you barely need 1st gear in a race.
    Most of the time you need 2nd and 3rd.
    4th on the long straight.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is that a 190e?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Does R have a lockout? I'm sure I'd fricking wreck that gearbox by shifting without thinking about it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Haven't driven that specific one, but there's typically either a lockout or a really strong spring that you have to overcome to get into reverse. E30s have a normal shift pattern but a similar left and up reverse and it'd be really hard to go into by accident, you have to go way over to the left and push much harder than the forward gears to get into it. Looks like a similar setup on the one in the pic, even though first is down and left.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What are you talking about? The beetle has an H shift pattern.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The old ones have a star shifter. Not 100% sure how far back you need to go to find them though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No they don't, they shift in an H pattern.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wow look at that H pattern. It's almost like I know what I'm talking after daily driving air cooled Volkswagens for 3 years.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >air cooled
        gallons of oil

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm alright with this
      also nice trips

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm alright with this
      also nice trips

      checked
      I don't drive manual but this seems intuitive.
      Going from 1st to reverse or vice versa seems easy enough.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah it's nice because you don't have to worry about accidentally shifting into reverse because you have to push the lever down to engage it

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Wtf is OP's pic?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Stay away from that shit morons, you really don't know what you're fricking with.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

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        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >real
          there's your mistake. just keep going to church. no need to be so brave.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What is it? It looks like some woman's astrology book.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If only you knew, which you shouldn't know

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >/x/ will tell me, /x/ is ronery

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

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        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

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      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

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