My current gripe with my MG4 LR/Trophy (Right hand drive)

[Airbag888]

So I got a LR edition sourced from Australia/NZ or made for that market.
I'm still praying that the auto emergency brake does not result in someone crashing into me because of phantom braking and I've urged my wife to turn off ELK (to be fair, it's not as bad as AEB)
But funny enough, this is the first "non-manual" car I've owned (in 24 yrs of driving), I find the rotary "gear?" selector very unintuitive. It's a great thing that you basically almost never need to use it BUT

I find that everytime I'm doing some maneuvre that involves using the reverse and drive a lot (ex: fitting in a parking spot / getting out of it) especially when time sensitive (you're blocking traffic so you want to do it quick) I sometimes go in R and instinctively push to R again when trying to move forward..

Maybe I need to drive more to get used to it (1000km so far and of course likely 15mins of this kind of parking situation in that time) but I can't help but feel that R and D should've been reversed and also that the whole console is a bit redundant.. and maybe having it be push up for D and down for R (or forward/backwards) would be more intuitive....

Anyway hoping I adjust sooner than later, wondering if I'm alone in this

 

[decrep]

Took me a little while, It's so different, but you will get used to it.
I've been driving ours more than my surfwagon lately, and I found it strange getting back into a "normal" ICE car the other day, when I went to the beach.

 

[flapajack]

I have exactly the same issue as you. Manage to select R or D when trying to do the opposite. No doubt will get used to it eventually but did now have to take a bit of time ensuring I got the right gear.

 

[siteguru]

Just remember ... it is Right for Dri... ...... oh .. wait ?‍

 

[webhiker]

Putting it this way: When you learnt to drive you did figure out how to drive a stick shift, so surely will will learn the dual too

Ps. I occasionally get it wrong too

 

[Airbag888]

Putting it this way: When you learnt to drive you did figure out how to drive a stick shift, so surely will will learn the dual too

Ps. I occasionally get it wrong too

Well it could be the old man syndrome.. I did learn stick and only drove stick as I said (manual) for 20yrs but I was younger back then... What I guess I'm saying is it might have been more intuitive to just put a 'push forward or backwards' switch and actually size the huge lip down a bit ... Anyway we'll see phantom braking is what's the most scary part because every time it kicks in it feels like someone rammed into you

 

[Robf]

I have got into the habit of actually confirming by looking whether in drive or reverse when manouvering.

 

[webhiker]

Well it could be the old man syndrome.. I did learn stick and only drove stick as I said (manual) for 20yrs but I was younger back then... What I guess I'm saying is it might have been more intuitive to just put a 'push forward or backwards' switch and actually size the huge lip down a bit ... Anyway we'll see phantom braking is what's the most scary part because every time it kicks in it feels like someone rammed into you

I agree that I would have found it more intuitive, but it is not and that's not gonna change ?
I have 40+ years of seniority of stick shifts

 

[decrep]

I agree that I would have found it more intuitive, but it is not and that's not gonna change ?
I have 40+ years of seniority of stick shifts

I drove a stick, from 17 to 66, so a bit more than you, I'm now 79 so I guess I've been in autos for another 13 years, but I don't think that helps much when it comes to big round knobs, and after about a month it's getting familiar, won't be long before it's second nature. Except for going back to the auto every now and then.

 

[Rolfe]

It should be intuitive - clockwise for go, anticlockwise for reverse. But I do it wrong quite often too.