New Cars are awesome part 1

You can still fingertip hold for signals. It’s not deactivated. In fact for the last 5 months that was what I did. 

I think the thing I like the most with this car is how active the transmission is in downshifting when needed. It does it in town too, downshifting early on development to add engine braking. Definitely not the 700r4 of old. 

Streetwiseguy said:

I drive a lot of different vehicles at work, and one feature that I just cannot get used to is the momentary contact turn signal switch on Ford trucks.  Hit the switch, it returns to center.  First reaction, "Why didn't that work?  I must not have pushed hard enough."  Click switch again.  Well, that turns it off.  I have managed to stop turning the wrong signal on when trying to turn it off after a lane change now, most times.  Counter intuitive to move the switch left to turn off the left signal.

I'm sure it wouldn't be an issue if I drove only that type of vehicle every day, but different is not necessarily better, and I think this is one of those cases. 

I've had that on a couple Uhauls. I hate it. 

Big fan of the "tap for 3 blinks". FoST and Mazda3 both have it. Use it all the time for lane changes. Wasn't aware the Germans had that feature many years ago since no one who drives one of those cars ever uses their signals in the first place.

Yeah - I've gotten used to the momentary 3-blinks on my '08 GC and miss it when I drive my '06 MINI.  I think it may be programmable in the MINI BCM. I'll have to check.

The sequential rear blinkers in the Mustang became standard with the refresh in 2011. 

that's odd. My Abarth has the one touch for three blinks, but I can still push past the click to make it stay on.. and the lever stays there like it was meant to.

what I find hilarious is the high beam switch. With the lights off, you can't push it forwards at all. You can still pull it back to flash, but until the lights are actually one, the switch will not move fowards to engage the high beams

z31maniac said:

I think it's great, light touch = lane change, slightly stronger touch 'click' = it's on.

You could do that with the old BMW stalks as well: just press against the gate, but not enough to get a full click.

Ransom said:

...I don't like that the lever always just re-centers. Canceling becomes a matter of timing; if you cancel slightly too late you re-engage the signal, or turn on the opposite signal, depending on which direction you went to try to cancel. I prefer to just hold with fingertip for a lane change, releasing when done, and physically engage the click if I want to leave it on. Canceling then becomes intuitive.

Exactly!

I've been re-coding VW and Audis to do this at least since the Mk5/B6 platforms were new, 2008 or so.  You can change the number of blinks with a connected Vag-com.

yupididit said:

In California I learned the "signal and dive", basically as soon as the turn signal gets turned on you change lanes. 

Not just California but any crowded metropolitan area. If you don’t the hole closes up.  

On the way home. 75-80 using the shifter like a manual and we just knocked down 37.5mpg. God I love this car