Got an axe to grind here. Nothing to do with Morgans or at least not specific to Morgans. We have 3 cars and all of them have different stalks and gear selection locations. The framily Merc has the most stupid of the lot because the gear "lever" is a normal stalk to the right of the wheel and where one other car has its indicators and the third has its wipers. But to make matter worse if you unintendedly use the gear stalk in the Merc whilst say in the outside lane of the M4 it takes you out of gear but wont let you back into gear. So there you are in the outside lane with no drive until you get across to the hard shoulder and can re -engage.

This stupidity might not have mattered when I was 18 and had a functioning brain but at 80 it does matter.

Why cant the wretched EU, which loves to meddle with our lives, do something useful and standardise car controls. As it does damn near every other bit of the machine.