Favorite Reverse

Left-up or Right-down?

I like left-up personally because it feels cool when you switch from reverse to 1st quickly since they're nearly in the same location

Yeah, I personally love that pattern as well, I attribute it to passing driver's ed since the car I was given to perform the test was a 2013 Hyundai Accent with that shifter.

Made moving from parallel to reverse parking a breeze as it was pretty much muscle memory.

Right down because I'm a butterfingered autist who'll reverse trying to go forwards otherwise.

If there's a reverse lockout ring to pull on, it doesn't matter all that much.

I guess right-down because that's what i learned on, and it was a 5-speed so it made a nice even pattern which appealed to my autistic OCD.

i've made the boo-boo of going into "reverse" when it was actually 1st gear and going forward. Mistake not easily made when reverse is bottom right, next to 6th gear.

While I prefer reverse being next to first, it being next to 5th honestly makes the most sense, and hopping from 1st to reverse is easier when it's next to fifth than when it's next to first, because it's one smooth motion.
I have cars in both patterns, but I've also got a dog leg and I prefer that most of all.

>Go into reverse at 1st gear speeds.
>Go into reverse at 6th gear speeds.

hmmmm

Odd how 1st gear speeds are almost the same as reverse gear speeds.ever tried going into reverse at 5th or 6th gear speeds?

literally every car has a mechanical lockout that won't let you go into reverse at highway speeds.

As for the thread, i prefer up left reverse next to first, i didn't think i'd ever get used to it but now whenever i drive someone else's shitbox where reverse is right and down i get really annoyed.