Since this thread started I have gotten some (dang few) miles on my car and will stand by what I said a year ago about the Lokar: it's pretty, works fine but I shoulda had a cable shifter. I'm fairly tall at 6'4" and you can probably guess my right knee keeps "helping" my shifts - and usually at inappropriate times. I'll probably just get a shorter lever to move it closer to the floor and will then have TWO used Lokar shift levers to try and sell, the original 23" plus the current 16"