“I think it’s a pretty short training time,” he said of learning to use the EPS. Earlier, in 2012 BMW recalled more than 45,000 7-series cars with an electronic transmission-control system that could cause cars to shift into neutral rather than park and potentially roll away. Giving consumers a new way to shift an automatic transmission seems especially bold given recent events, including a federal investigation into some of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ rotary shifters and a voluntary recall by the same automaker of joystick-like, electronically controlled “monostable” shifters supplied by ZF. Park, neutral, and low are all selected by pushing buttons, while reverse and drive are engaged by pulling up on switches that resemble some power-window controls. But it’s on the inside where you’ll find one of the more ambitious decisions made by the Terrain team for the all-new 2018 model that made its debut earlier this month at the Detroit auto show.Īt the bottom of the center stack rests GMC’s new Electronic Precision Shift (EPS), a row of buttons and switches replacing a traditional shift lever or steering-column-mounted stalk for controlling the nine-speed automatic transmission. Its floating roof and C-shaped LEDs flanking the headlights are elements intended to separate the Terrain from its boxy past, if not from the rest of the compact-SUV pack. With its all-new GMC Terrain, General Motors has thrown fresh sheetmetal at a segment that is hot but becoming crowded.
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