Quote:
Originally Posted by Laguna Seca Blue
For someone who’s only put 146km on his first manual car, I’d say he’s doing pretty well filming a video and talking his way through the entire thing.
So I get that he’s just parroting the whole rubbery gearshift feel thing, but could someone please explain what exactly is rubbery about a BMW shifter? Between my dearly departed E46 M3 and two E92 335i’s, I probably have 100k miles of seat time behind BMW manuals, and notchy is an adjective I might understand, but they are extremely mechanically engaging…
|
I think the term "rubbery" pertains to the shifter's willingness to rotate itself into center position. It's "springy". That "spring" to it through gears is construed as "rubbery" because the human moving it isn't forcing it into it's intended position, rather, it's helping itself "spring to center".
Just my theory.