I'm not sure why reverse was a problem for a few of you. I think for all the cars I've driven (and all of them four-, five- and six-speed shift cars), reverse is either down and left or down and right. Am I missing something?

EDIT - Now that I think about it some more, maybe on the four-speed, I didn't have to push down. It's been too long. I've been driving stick shift forever.

 

It's not the location of reverse, it's clearly marked on the shifter. It's that little detail that you have to push the shifter towards the trasnsmission tunnel to find the reverse gate. I had the same issue when picking my car up from the dealer...never needed reverse when I test drove it. Took me a couple of tries before I found it, and I've driven stick shifts everyday for nearly 20 years. None of the 5 or 6 speeds I'd driven previously had this particular lockout mechanism. I vaguely remember driving an older corvette that had a ring on the shifter neck that you had to depress to get into reverse, that wasn't terribly intuitive either.

 

OK...I guess I just can't remember whether it was a problem or not, since I've been driving an S since 2001.

 

So far some silly stuff but nothing that bad... I was visiting the parents in the mountains (LOTS of fun) and took my brother for a ride for the first time. Cold tires, new but not exactly super sticky tires, and an uphill to downhill decreasing radius off-camber turn. I'm a total motorcycle guy (race and all) and realized that even though the car seems like a bike - it's not quite. rear end was gone in the blink of an eye at 60 mph with no indication at all. several 360's and ended up somehow hitting the front AND rear of the car on the side of the mountain. Luckily I ended up on the inside of the turn and not the outside.... long drop! DUMB DUMB DUMB. This was almost 9 months ago and I finally am getting the money to fix it all proper. Really, you can't even see any damage 10ft away, but I know it's there. Front under plastic panels, front bumper, wheel well liners, good little spot on the passenger front fender where the liner clip ripped out, and a tiny scratch on the back bumper. This was the first *really* nice car that I've cared about, and I'm almost 30. I still can't believe I did that crap.

 

A guy at the Honda dealer asked me how if I had a real S2000 and how I got it in Automatic, I gave a huge face palm and left