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Originally Posted by snareman
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Originally Posted by JustChris
Indeed 
For my use case though, the P button in a BMW auto is barely used.
Well if that was my fun answer here's my real answer.
The world was already burning with a move from DCT to ZF gearbox. The DCT shifter as I'm sure you know is bereft of a P button.
Thus the P button on the new ZF shifters was 'minimised ' to lesser highlight the change. As per my use case above it's also less used so has been kept, just, but is put out of the way.
I actually think that's highly likely. |
I didn't realize initially that you didn't have to actually press it to put it into park as you would have to move a regular auto shifter into the park position when you park. I guess if the car 'auto parks' when you turn it off as the DCT did then it sounds like its not really as important of a change. So, does the car go into Park or is it just left in gear when you turn it off without pressing the button? |
It goes into park on its own.
Even better if it was pushed over to the left and in the manual mode Up/Down track, and you stop, it still goes into Park and pops back over to the right.