Victoria the Land Rover

How to use the several gear levers ?

This is what this article intends to explain

Anyone seating in the spartan cockpit of a Land Rover series immediately notice the multiple levers growing through the floor. The longest, black knob, is obviously the main gear lever. The yellow one, two positions, moving up and down, is the 4 wheel drive selector. Finally, the red one moving longitudinally, two positions pulled back or pushed frontward, is selecting the gear ratio.

You know if a Land Rover is made for you if you get the functioning of the red and yellow levers easily: the logic is odd, but you just have to listen to it to know how it works, without having to understand it: that's the English way. Stop asking why: how is enough !

Lets admit it: the only puzzling thing for most is that to get out of the 4 wheel drive you MUST proceed first through the low ratio, even though you don't need it…