The new Corvette has a push button shifter, but I believe to put it into drive you lift the Drive button up instead of pushing it.
This makes sense to me. In order to get an innate feel for a push button shifter, the buttons can’t all look and feel exactly the same.
GM designed a brilliant car and nailed the shift buttons. I think I saw the Explorer with a bank of identical rectangle buttons. Some pushed and some pulled, not a better idea, in fact, rather boneheaded.
Hyundai/Kia allows you to turn the engine off while in drive and the vehicle will roll away if you are not in park.
True for the Telly and my '15 Genesis (I have tested) and they both have a mechanical lever to select gears and can not mechanically move back to P with electronic programming.
There is warning a chime and a dash warning message that says "shift to P".
My Accord works the same way.
My Pacifica with rotary electronic selector won't shut off unless it is in P. It stays running, warns "shift to P" and forces a shift by not shutting off.
My 2013 X5 with electronic control shifts to P by
1. hitting the P button on the shifter
2. shutting the engine off.
The
MDX and Palisade push button electronic gear selection differs from above.
There are 3 ways to put it in P which I have tested on both 2020 MDX and
Palisade.
1. Push P
2. Turn the engine off while in D and it will shift to P.
3. Open the door while in D (and not moving presumably-I didn't test that) and it will shift to P
The Telly doesn't have any of that and
one better be dang sure they put it in P before walking away because someone could get killed.
This is not unique from many other cars so I'm just answering the question "What does the Pali have that the Telly doesn't"
The Telly also doesn't get the sweet TFT cluster of the Pali with the lane camera displayed in the left or right dial.
The center lane display of the Tellyis not as intuitive. Am I looking down the right side or left side of the car? of course it's based on which signal is on but with two different screens, there can never be a question.
I prefer manual fold rear seats so +1 for Telly. More cargo room, faster, and nothing to break or wear out.
I might well have gotten a Pali were it not for that maw up front.
The grille looks like the offspring of a 3 way between a Lexus, Infiniti, and the Predator (IIK920 original). Wife can't stand the big mouth bass either and we both LOVE the Telly looks. Paid $4K more for the Telly over a very 10 years ago 2020 MDX with $10,100 off MSRP. That says a lot.