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Oddity in the Kona N manual shift mode

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I have owned a 2005 Elantra GT, 2006 Elantra Hatch back, 2013 Elantra Coupe, 2014 Elantra GT, 2015 Sonata Sport, 2016 Elantra SE, 2021 Kona Ltd, 2023 Tucson SEL, 2023 Kona N. These are just the one's with automatics.

Every one of these had a manual gate on the shifter to allow for manual control of the gear box. In each of them, shoving the shifter forward was an upshift, pulling backward was a downshift. Except one. I cannot understand why the Kona N is backward to the rest. Pull back to upshift, push forward to downshift. I checked the owner's manual and that is the correct operation.

Weird.
 
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Update: Did some research and it looks like this is a standard for the 8spd equipped N vehicles; Elantra, Kona, and Veloster. Done to mimic the shifting of automatic equipped drag cars and other ultra-high performance vehicles.