Well I guess it pays to read the manual. I was driving a friend to the beer store yesterday (first day I had my 8) and couldn't get it into reverse. He couldn't stop laughing and bugging me about the fact that I just bought a sports car and can't even back it up!

Evently I did but found out later that you need to push down before going out past 6th.

Humiliating but at least it was only in front of one person.

Jus thought I'd share my humility.

spaceman

 

I had the same problem when I took it for a test drive for the first time.

 

I feel ya, I used to have a Jeep Wrangler and didn't have to push the stick down to unlock reverse. I had my car off the lot and for about an hour until i had to get into reverse and it took me about 15 min of trying before I busted out the manual.

 

lol... same here.

When I picked up my 8 the first thing I did was drive it to the other side of the building beside my old car. every time I drove an 8 it was set up for me so I just pulled straight ahead. It took me about five minutes before my father told me to try pushing down on the shifter.

 

same here. when i test drove it. The dealer told me to reverse. And i looked at the stick and i was like how do i reverse. I felt so dumb.

 

Isn't it amazing that even in 6th gear the car doesn't want to stall and actually moves forward a bit. I guess that means that I've done it before too .