What you are describing is just BMW progress. The indicators have a touch position and a fully on position, like a two stage switch. You can alter the indicator stalk settings via the iDrive. You can have it set to click 3 times with the first touch position(chuffin' annoying and is well turned off in mine) or just have a single click on the first touch position. The auto stick you are describing is the one fitted to facelifted E60/1 chassis. It falls much easier to hand but it is actually a switch rather than a gear lever, the stick doesn't actually move and stay in that position it always returns to the centre postion. If the cars electrical power fails you have a complex task of getting the autobox out of Park and into Neutral to allow the car to move. In my prefacelift E60 the gear lever is just that. No electrical input required to allow it to move other than foot on the brake of course. But the three biggest gripes I have with the E60 over the E39 are the lack of a curry hook in the boot, no boot release switch on the dash and the biggest one, no sodding temp gauge. The most important dial in the car that informs the driver of engine condition is the temp gauge. Mercs don't have temp gauges but then again the Merc handbooks are written along the lines of..... As a Merc driver you needn't concern yourself with what's under the bonnet or how the cars works. All you should do is top up the screenwash (when prompted by a warning light of course) anything else should be left to a qualified Merc mechanic.
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