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What is the gear shifter called?
Is there a proper name for the gear shifter? What is the gear shifter called?
Nick Kunze · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
While gear shifter is a recognized and fine name, the more official name for what a gear shifter is called is a transmission lever.
Other common names are gear stick, gear lever, and shifter.
The gear shifter switches you between gears on a manual transmission. For an automatic transmission, where the shifter only moves you from Park to Reverse to Drive, the device is known as a gear selector.
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