Don't know if this is what you're talking about but the rental car I got in
Italy in September had what I believe they called a "sequential transmission".
You shifted -- sort of -- by simply bumping the gearshift straight forward to
advance a gear and backward to downshift. Reverse was a bump off to the side.
It also had an indicator on the dash to tell you when to shift if you
couldn't figure it out for yourself and if you didn't do it in what the
computer
considered a timely fashion, it did it for you eventually. It wasn't hard to
get
used to but it frequently wouldn't go into any gear from neutral usually in the
middle of traffic. I frequently had to shut the engine off and restart to get
it into first. When I returned it and commented on it, I was told, "Yes, we
get that complaint a lot." (Cannot for the life of me remember what kind of car
it was, though.)
Jim Macomber
65 4A
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