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Best and Worst shifters
As an offshoot of the manual vs auto thread, what's the best & worst manual shifter you've ever encountered?
Mine would be a '91 Taurus SHO. I thought "like running a spoon through a peanut butter jar" was an exaggeration until I drove that car. Later '91s replaced the cable shifter with a rod setup, I sure hope that helped because the cable was awful.
My dad's Triumph TR7 almost as bad, until we found out that all 8 shifter bushings were completely gone. He replaced those and it's pretty good now.
My favorite is my '88 Thunderbird. Nice short throws, and the shifter goes straight down in the tranny so there's no friction/lost motion from a linkage.
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