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Where's reverse?

Find the shift pattern for your car. 1057 cars on file, 735 verified, and every entry shows the manual page or knob behind it.

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Did you know

  • There was no manual Firebird in 1980. Every car got the Turbo Hydramatic 350, and the stick came back in 1981. More
  • The BMW E30 M3 had a dogleg five-speed while the 318i and 325i used a normal H. Wikipedia says the Mercedes 190E 2.3-16 shared the M3's gearbox. More
  • On a Jeep CJ, reverse depended on the gearbox. A forum thread puts it left and up on the SR4 four-speed, right and down on the T-4 and T-176. More
  • In Ford Europe's Focus manual, the ST six-speed puts reverse bottom right. The other Mk2 sixes in the same book put it top left behind a locking ring, and the Mondeo manual does the same split. More

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