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Originally Posted by JABCAT
Idk - 3rd & 5th are up in standard manual. I've also driven some manuals where 2nd & 4th were up (1st was down left).
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For sure. But that’s unavoidable in a manual. Some upshift is going to require pushing the lever forward against the G forces that are pushing you backward.
But in an auto we don’t have that constraint. So it’s an opportunity to be ergonomic. And upshifting by pushing forward is almost never going to be ergonomic. I appreciate that BMW got this right with the ZF shifter. I sometimes use it instead of the paddles and always appreciate that I’m pulling backwards to upshift while accelerating and pushing forward to downshift while decelerating. It’s simply a more natural movement given what the car is doing to your body.