On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, george jannini wrote:

>    Nothing is new.  I think that someone already mentioned that back in
> the day, (Joel & I remember well) GM auto levers were in the dash on
> Corvairs and Tempests for sure.  And back then, good ol' Chrysler
> Corporation had auto push buttons located on the left side of the dash by
> the A pillar.

The new Honda Civic Si has its shift lever sticking out of the dash, even
in the manual version.  People I've heard from who have test-driven it
like it, because it's less of a reach from the steering wheel.

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