# Column shift **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [December 12, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676 "2009-12-12T18:23:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kenfost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@kenfost](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kenfost)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676/1 "2009-12-12T18:23:46Z")
Is there a small car that has the gear shift on the column? either new or used. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676/2 "2009-12-12T18:38:30Z")
“Three on the tree” shifters used to be common many years ago, but I haven’t seen one since the early '70s…and that one was a used car. ---
**Author:** ![irlandes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@irlandes](https://community.cartalk.com/u/irlandes)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676/3 "2009-12-14T19:15:27Z")
Not on the column, but somewhere not long ago, I rode with someone in a car that has the shifter on the dash. Honda? Or Isuzu? Really looked strange. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676/4 "2009-12-14T19:54:45Z")
It was probably one of Nisaan’s recent minivans. I saw it too and didn’t like the styling one bit. ---
**Author:** ![ken\_green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/ken_green/32/816_2.png) [@ken\_green](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ken_green)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676/5 "2009-12-14T21:22:09Z")
up to 07 a midsize Ford Taurus has column shift option. I, too, have seen many a time when I wouldn’t want a floor shifter. It’s an oxymoronic waste of space in my 06 hybrid Escape. It has a CVT transmission…except for park, reverse, and drive there’s nothing to shift ! And certainly no need to have a shift lever under your hand at all times at the ready …for what ? ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676/6 "2009-12-15T17:50:11Z")
I thought I saw one of the hybrids with the shifter on the dash. Prius perhaps? Recently I saw a fully restored old Dodge Dart, late '60s, with an automatic tranny with the row of buttons on the dash. I haven’t seen one since I was in high school. Back then the pushbutton shifter system was cable driven and there were reliability problems, but with todays technology it seems this would be an excellent idea. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/column-shift/40676/7 "2009-12-15T18:31:27Z")
Are you talking about the selector lever for an automatic transmission or a manual transmission car? I think the last manual transmission car with a column shift was a 1977 Chevrolet Chevelle. I’ve seen a late model Ford Taurus with the selector on the column.