After 2 TT 300Z's, 93 RX-7, 2 NSX's, a C-5 Vette, and a 2006 G35 Sport, my current 370Z (2012) has finally turned me off to Manual shifting transmissions. I'm thinking that because they have become somewhat of a "niche" item (autos are so much more popular) the auto manufacturers are not throwing the same amount of engineering to the manual transmission as they do to other of the performance items in the vehicle. Here I thought that because of the rev matching feature, Nissan was still putting a lot of interest to the transmission of this one model. However, it is clearly the weakest link in an otherwise stellar package (for the price.) I don't know about the transmission itself, but the actuation, feel, etc, lets this car down. Really should have gone with the 7 speeder for this one!
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