This will be rambling but I'm trying to give as much information as I can:


The car is a 2006 roadster with 31000 mi . Due to my health issues The car has been sitting up for a little over a year. I would infrequently start it and let it run for a while sometimes driving it around the neighborhood. The other day it wouldn't start with a jump. I noticed the battery was well past due for replacement. I bought a new batter, installed it and took it out for a ride lasting about forty minutes not driving over forty miles an hour. It performed just fine, no issues. Yesterday I thought I'd go out for breakfast in it. It started fine and until I stopped at a red light all seemed well. When I took off from the light the car seemed to be in low gear, thought maybe I had accidently tapped the gear shift to first or second gear but it wouldn't up shift. I pulled over and put it in park and when I tried to put it back into drive the gear shift wouldn't budge. I shut the engine off and then restarted and it slid right into drive. I took off but with very low power and the spedo wasn't working. Made a U-turn and went home and parked it in the garage. This morning I went to start it and the dash lit up but engine would not start.


Any one have any thoughts on what could have happened?