"Both handbrake and
gear lever were checked and both would hold the vehicle on the incline in isolation," he told the inquest.
The Twingo GT also has Renault Sport-badged door sills, aluminium pedals and a Sport
gear lever knob.
Mahindra has not used a conventional straight shift pattern and has instead, chosen a gated type shifter to house the
gear lever. What this means is that there is no button on the gear shifter and pressing the brake pedal is enough to shift from 'Park' to 'Drive.' Excluding the W4 and W6 models, the Automatic gearbox will be available in three variants on the XUV500.
Inside, unique Red Carbon black style sports front seats comes with red stitching, as do the dashboard, sports steering wheel and short shift
gear lever.
The
gear lever is new and the analogue clocks have been replaced by the same LCD screen layout now seen in the XC60 and the V40 -- and honestly it makes the car look quite updated.
Standard specification also includes body-coloured rear spoiler and side skirts, leather steering wheel and
gear lever, automatic climate control, dark-tinted privacy glass, electric front windows, rear parking sensors, sports suspension, adaptive cornering fog lights, cruise control, a stop-start system, voice-controlled Blue&Me multimedia system and five airbags.
At the more popular GT level, the RCZ gets 19-inch alloys as standard along with an interior sports kit with sports steering wheel and
gear lever.
The cockpit has a modern leather steering wheel, gear knob, handbrake lever and
gear lever, a dashboard design with ergonomic control layout.
Inside, there are minor changes like a lacquered black
gear lever surround and on GT models the door trim pads are trimmed with leather.
The onboard tyre inflation and deflation system is used to constantly tune the vehicle to the conditions, and Chauve is as busy with the buttons on the control panel as he is with the
gear lever.
As the airplane was on approach, the pilot lowered the flaps to 10 degrees and placed the landing
gear lever to the down position.
A leather
gear lever gaiter and polished metal gearknob bearing the Gordini name complete the look.