The phrase 'gear shift lever' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the lever used to shift the gears of a manual transmission in a car. Example: She drove the car with ease, manipulating the gear shift lever to smoothly transition between gears.
To have a car with a gear shift lever that has positions for Forward, Neutral, Reverse and Propeller?
One interested rider who buttonholed me at the top of Bear Mountain, about an hour's ride north of Manhattan, loved the bike, but pointed out that the gear shift lever seemed a bit flimsy — like a toothpick, he said.
When the gear shift lever is kicked over to sport mode, the i8 becomes exhilarating.
The driver controls the Slingshot with car-like controls – steering wheel, foot pedals, center-mounted gear shift lever, etc. There's a single center drive wheel in the rear, and the vehicle's plastic body panels mount on a frame made of steel tubing.
Since there is no clutch and no gear shift lever, operation is a breeze.
The "Standard Version" arcade cabinet included a cockpit seat, steering wheel, a gear shift lever (for forward and reverse gear) and a brake and acceleration pedal; a more compact "Naomi Cabinet Version" also existed without the cockpit seat.
On the plus side, the six-speed automatic responds quickly and can be shifted manually by moving the gear-shift lever from side to side.
The automaker said the malfunction could set off a variety of faults, including the failure of the cruise control to disengage, failure of the brake light to illuminate, the ability to move the gear-shift lever out of Park without applying the brake and "the intermittent operation of the push-button start feature".
Negative transfer effects (such as reaching for the floor to shift gears when the shift lever is on the steering wheel) appear occasionally but tend to be easily overcome.
I saw the boat's strange mechanisms: the axle, the gears, a shift lever for forward and reverse.
1,075,102 of the previous generation 4-speed automatic transmission Chevrolet Malibu and from the 2004-2008 model years and Pontiac G6 from the 2005-2008 model years because of a shift cable that could wear out over time, resulting in mismatches of the gear position indicated by the shift lever.
