Ferraris with gated manual shifters may get all the headlines, but the most interesting shifter I’ve ever seen in a car has to be the exposed chrome linkage in the Dutch exotic Spyker C8.

Because Spyker used to be famous for racing in the early '1900s, the Dutch car manufacturer considered re-entering the motorsports arena and produced a Le Mans special vehicle, the 2002 Spyker C8 ...