Okay drove the car home from Seattle to Portland Yesterday, It defintely is a learning cure to shift with this shifter, I got in stop and go traffic in Seattle so I got to do a lot of shifting practice, it takes at least double the effort to shift into each gear and even more to from 2nd to first, I had to pay attention which way to throw the shifter trying to break old habit of the stock shifter pattern, Takes a little longer to shift into reverse or from reverse back into first, since you have to go into neutral first then move the reverse shift lever and then pull the shift lever towards you like you would be going into first and just the opposite to go back in to first, so if in reverse you push the lever up to neurtal and then move the reverse lever towards you and then pull the shifter towards you into first.