Selecting gear

Select a gear by moving the gear selector backwards or forwards. The current gear is indicated in the driver display.
Gear selector
The available gears are:
RReverse
NNeutral
DDrive
MManual
PPark

When moving the gear selector either backwards or forwards, you can feel that it has two positions in both directions. Select R by moving the gear selector all the way forwards. Move the selector all the way backwards to select D.

You can select the neutral gear, N, by moving the gear selector to the first position in either direction and holding it there for a couple of seconds. The gear selector always returns to its middle position between gear selections.

Select M by moving the selector all the way backwards while driving in gear D. This enables manual gear shifting. Move the selector backwards again to return to gear D.

 Note

Selecting gears D, R, N or P is only possible when the car is stationary or when you are driving at walking pace.

Press the brake pedal1.
  • Move the gear selector forwards or backwards to select one of the driving gears or neutral.
  • Press the P button next to the gear selector to select the parking gear, P.

Your selection is indicated in the driver display.

Gear selection in the driver display
  1. 1 only necessary if your car is stationary

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