One thousand posts on the same topic? Is that some kind of world-wide forum record? It should be...or at least a sticky.

 

has this died off again?

 

hopefully not!

 

It seems both autosticks have died off...There's been no news on either the TCI or the B&M shifters, both of which are supposed to be coming out "soon."

Maybe TCI's trying to figure out how to connect the handle inside the black box, and I don't know what B&M is up to...

 

Another Christmas will come and go without an auto-shifter under the tree...

 

Maybe Ford will get off its rear and give us an autostick in the next version?

 

I think the chances of this happening has better odds than the aftermarket guys. So it seems.
Scott

 

I can't figure out why Ford didn't create one for the S197's to begin with!

 

The 2005 Thunderbirds with the same 5R55S transmission got it as an option. $130 MSRP for option code 53S, SelectShift Transmission. Maybe Ford figured if a Mustang buyer wanted to shift, they'd opt for the manual trans (which wasn't an option to Thunderbird buyers).

 

TCI has an ad in Mustang Entusiast so this is coming soon

 

It's a shame B&M has screwed around for so long someone else has beaten them to the punch.

 

I think you have a typo. Did you mean screw B&M?
Scott

 

I wanted a manual, but I bought an automatic. I deal with heavy traffic 5 days a week, and I've done that before in a manual, and it was annoying as hell, ate clutches, and was a general pain.

Tiptronics/autosticks are so awesome because it allows me to pop it into automatic during the traffic days, and then on the weekends when I want to play, I can shift into manual mode and have fun.

I can't afford two Mustangs, so an autostick would let me have both setups for the price of one.

And to be honest, the automatic was a $1,000 option. If there was an autostick option in addition to manual and automatic, I would have paid for that instead. Ford dropped the ball.

 

http://www.tciauto.com/WhatsNew/File...hetshifter.pdf

I called TCI today,the part # for the new shifter is 619570.It is going to be released the second week of january,go to the above site for info,I am ordering mine tomorrow,sorry B&M i waited a whole year.

 

sorry you guys can't continue to wait, paitence is a virtue we all lose sometimes.



@ Chris, I am still waiting, those that don't means I will get mine sooner when it does come out. LOL

 

And I will be waiting for both of you. I won't buy until I've seen more dirt. Someone has to actually buy this thing, install it, tell us how it works and how easy/hard it was to install, etc, before I throw $$$ at something that's barely out of prototype.

 

Well, I can just as easily say our B&M part # is 81004 and the retail price on the unit is $362.29. I can also say (honestly) as I have always been that a customer came through our booth at PRI who just left the TCI booth and was told they had not even actually tried the unit out in a car yet and the piece on display was not a functional unit. Again, this is what I was told and I don't know for sure so take it for what its worth. I will also say the although TCI is a competitor of ours we have a VERY good working relationship with them. And, I can also say that I have another possible plan up my sleeve to up the "ante" a little bit for our unit in the form of a "tuning" package. Details on that are still being worked out but its on the table.

 

I knew it! I bleeding knew it!

2 for 2! Woot!

 

n00b

 

i have the B&M auto shifter in my stang right now.
it works pretty well.