As with many new cars, a gearshift indicator shows when a change of ratio might improve economy.
I'm about to drop the gearshift down into drive when I look up through the snow and there she is — Becky Marie Thane — standing directly between the headlights, staring at me with a look not unlike my dog's.
He raised one bony hand to the gearshift, turning to Tomasina as his face split open in a smile.
Mountain snowmobiles have uncomplicated drive mechanisms — throttle, brake, no gearshift, no reverse — and, as I learned after we crested an abrupt declivity, almost no traction when the sled is moving steeply downhill on its runners.
He draws the maze plans on drafting paper and displays them afterward in his swept-out garage addition — he calls it the Hall of History — with other jamboree memorabilia: the gearshift from the original hayride truck, trotter prints from the winning pigs.
It's a favorite locution of President Obama's, too, though usually with the gearshift, so to speak, in reverse: "It's not who we are".
But the road was too narrow, and seeing that he could go no farther he began to jiggle the loose gearshift.
Brian Williams doesn't have a way to coo at Obama and then segue into a slightly friendlier version of the usual reporter's tough question without stripping out his gearshift.
Our rented Citroën Onze — with its chevron-striped grille, crooked-arm gearshift, low power, and sneaky reverse gear — would carry us faithfully along the uncrowded two-lane routes to the south.
Outings in the Volkswagen now involved the four of us, Deborah in the front, her hand over Pranab Kaku's while it rested on the gearshift, my mother and I in the back.
