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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
MTs don't have this "Park" of which you speak to shift into.  |
...but you can sort of fake it by dropping the lever into Reverse before you lock up and walk away.
That's the one downside of MTs in my opinion, the absence of a Park position that locks the tranny. I always use the parking brake and usually also curb the front wheels when on a slope, just for added insurance, in addition to putting it in a low gear.
But if there were a Park position, you KNOW someone would engage it while on the move, destroy his/her car, and then sue the daylights out of everyone and anyone possible. And then Park would be made so ridiculously difficult to get into that you couldn't possibly ever accidentally engage it, and it would never get used except by ecomodders who confabulated a simple on-off switch.