Just a random thought.... back in 2005 when I purchased my Crossfire brand new I came to work the next day. A co-worker said to me "you should have waited for the new crossfire model". I had no idea what he was talking about. He told me there was a new redesigned Crossfire coming out.

I later realized he was referring to the Firepower. Just shows you how much people knew about our cars. I remember looking up the firepower on line. I wish they would have come out with the car. Kind of reminded me of the crossfire and a Aston Martin combo with a nice powerfull engine!

I am bored and figured I would just share an old story from 2005.

 

Another random thought.... going back to 2005.

I remember the morning I picked the crossfire up. The sales person at the time handed me the keys. The only advice he gave to me was how to put the car in reverse. I have a 6 speed and he told me to pop the stick up. This may be a common feature in German cars but I had never heard of such a thing before. That is all he said to me... and looking back I thank him for the heads up!

What drives me crazy is watching kids that work at the dealership trying to move my car in the garage bay. They just sit in the car for about 5 minutes and can't figure it out. Jamming my shifter.... just drives me crazy. That is why I decided years ago that NOBODY will drive my car but me!

 

Knowing this wouldn't you tell the person working on your car how to get it in Reverse? You were thankful that the salesman told you about it, I bet the technician trying to move your car would be thankful too.

I remember when I got my first one back in 05 too. Waiting 5 months for it to arrive, and the first time I saw it. I still have photo's somewhere of it with the tape on it. I might still have photo's of them unloading it off the covered trailer.

 

This is what happened on many occasions....
I would park the car in front and approach the technician. He would take the keys and I would be waiting around the lot for the car rental. I assumed the technician would take the car and pull it around back. Before I knew what was going on, he would throw the keys to one of the kids hanging around. Before I could catch the kid (or knew what was going on) he would jump in my car. It is now too late.

My car was not ordered.... so you got me there. I wish I had pictures of it all wrapped up. My car came from another local dealership and they traded some vehicles for it (they traded it and had it sent over for me). However, I still have the window sticker and bunch of other things I threw in a box. I recently went through the box and found the famous multi purpose tool. Didn't even know I had one

 

I still have my original window sticker for the limited crossfire too. It's under glass, and I would've probably let it go with the vehicle but I forgot to put it in there.

 

Had that problem the other day at the tire shop. 3 minutes of teh tech trying toback up. As my bumper began to kiss the curbing I went out and took over.

WhenI began to put it over the lift he stopped me saying "sir you can't do that, company rules."

I responded, "wanna bet."

Fortunately the shop manager, whom I know personaly, set the youngster straight.

I really don't mind strangers parking my car. But, if they cannot operate the stick, "please pal, move over." l

 

My Windblocker is from a military standpoint but I guess it fits ??

 

When I picked up my car at the dealer, the salesman parked the car facing the show room, and the only thing he showed me was how to get the seat into the lowest position and as far back from the steering wheel possible (I'm 6'2").
When I got into the car to leave, I noticed three salesmen standing in the showroom directly in front of me with their arms folded across their chests, (and a smug look on their faces) just waiting to see how long it was going to take me to figure out how to get it into reverse.
I guess I disappointed them, because it only took me about 15 or 20 seconds to figure out. But I have to admit, (at the time) it seemed like it took much longer with them staring at me.

 

All the cars I ever drove that were sticks were American cars... Like ford and gm. I would have never figured out how to put the crossfire in reverse unless I read the manual. Since the crossfire I drove a BMW and Audi a4 and both were sticks. I either had to push the shifter down or up to get them in reverse. My guess is that it is a German car thing.

 

Before I bought my car I saw a crossfire at local dealership and really wanted to test drive one so I pulled in got the keys and away we went. The car was very dusty so I couldn't get a good look at the paint so we took it to a car wash got out and sprayed it off. Well the car wash was not a pull thru... It took my step dad n I 10 minutes to give up and push it back out lol

 

It's not all Germans anymore; the Mazda 6-speed on the MS6 is push-down. It makes sense when you've got reverse off where someone inexperienced might go looking for 1st.

Hell, I'm lucky my other car (4runner) has a good reverse gate or I'd be hitting reverse where I wanted my nonexistent 6th gear

 

I almost walked away from mine and didn't buy it because the salesman never showed me how to put it in reverse! I started my test drive in the dealer's lot and got myself stuck in a corner and couldn't back up. I was just going to leave it there!

I'm glad I figured it out.

 

I wonder what % of XFs are 6 spds, when I bought Fred in Dec. of '07 the dealership had at least a dozen XFs & Fred was the only stick in the bunch.

 

Older Volvos have a lift up mechanism under the gear lever and reverse is next to 1st. I had more people rip my gear shift book right off. Lucky for me it was an easy fix. My Alfa was a push down & over too.

 

I drove my dad's old Jetta once and it was push down. Luckily I did my research and learned that XF's were German made. Took about a second to realize it was pull up and not push down. Took longer getting use to the clutch being so soft. I was coming from on 01 Mustang GT tho. Need man thighs for that clutch haha.

 

man!!! i just google the firepower and that car slaps our xfire in the face, and calls it his *****!..the firepower is wayyyyy nicer than the xfire....why do they never produce all these amazing concept cars??????