Is there only one car pocket or two?

The gearbox layout is a classic car gearbox layout that is almost extinct in China.

The gear lever of most current car models is in the front position between the two front seats, which is commonly known as the "ground gear". Most people are accustomed to this shifting method.

However, as a non-mainstream existence, gear shifting has persisted for a long time, and there are still cars using this gear arrangement to this day. Why?

First of all, we have to talk about the origin of Huai Block. This kind of structure first came from the United States.

Many cars in the early days used side gears, but later on, the advantages of ground gears became very obvious, and gradually the number of side gears became less common.

Until the 1970s and 1980s, the United States was in a golden economic period. The automobile industry was also uniquely endowed with development, and automatic transmission cars were quite popular. In order to arrange three seats in the first row of some cars, and in some cars to make more storage space in the front row, the gear lever is moved behind the steering wheel. Anyway, the automatic gear lever has a simple structure and is very convenient to arrange behind the steering wheel. . Moreover, Americans are lazy when driving automatic transmissions. They don’t change gears when the car is moving, and holding the gearbox will not cause any inconvenience. Of course, there have indeed been many manual models, but in the end the models that remain today are all automatic.