Bad Shift Makes Acura Endo!

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Everybody knows missing a shift can have disastrous consequences, but this has to be one of the worst instances I’ve seen. Apparently the dude behind the wheel was going for third, but wound up slamming the gearbox into first. Yikes. Obviously, the Acura wasn’t very happy about that, and pulled a pretty burly endo before coasting to a stop. You can’t really hear too much on the video, but I can only imagine what it sounded like inside the car as the tranny lunched itself. There’s some adult language at the end of this clip, so if you’ve got sensitive ears you might want to keep volume down.