The caliber has a shifter on the dash (sort of) but it's still in the center kind of like a cross-over or modern station wagon (which it is) So the console is intended to mate up with it about 6 to 10" above the floor. It would basically make you reach over the top of it and down to get to a shifter on the floor. Also, if you modified the front to slope down at all, you'd cut off both the cup-holders and basically have an arm rest left over.
