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Originally Posted by Kaldaien
I too drive a 7AT. 2015 is the first year they offered it on the Nismo trim, and I thought I would dislike it, but I tested the 6MT and 7AT and really really liked the paddles while cornering. However, I never leave it in D because having a fully automated transmission will bore the pants off of you 
Believe it or not, the manual mode paddle shifters also have synchro rev matching. It is actually not uncommon for automatic transmissions with a manual mode to have this feature. Basically, if you chose to manually downshift it is going to blip the throttle a little bit to keep the car from lurching after the shift.
I downshift sparingly, however, because if you do this while coming to a stop at a traffic light the sound the engine makes will draw a lot of attention - sometimes you just want to blend in  If you let the transmission downshift by itself (it does this at ~1500 RPM), it does not make the aggressive noise and it saves gas. |
I noticed you have a 15 nismo! nice! I never would have considered a previous year nismo because of their spoiler alone. However, for 2015, the spoiler is PERFECT! So, you have the nismo tech? Again, sweet. I didn't even test drive one (I did sit in one); perhaps I should have test driven one. The reasons I didn't initially consider one were 1 the cost. 2 the stiffer suspension (my partner wouldn't even ride with me in my FR-S cause of the firm ride - he's cool with the Z, mostly cause it feels more upscale and heaver / safer to him. Before we always took his stupid optima - the nismo might have pushed the limit on stiffness) 3 I preferred my rims over the nismo (the rims on the nismo are still badass.) 4 I wanted red and red on the nismo negates the cool red striping (I would haven chosen white (for a nismo) though - white nismo looks sweet
.) 5 the recaros should be electric (my friends cts-v as AWESOME gazillion way electric recarros- they are awesome!) --- ALL that being said there is something especially awesome about this years nismo!! I may have a little regret on not at least test driving one. Though maybe it's good I didn't cause they do stretch the budget quite a bit. Did you get a good deal on one? I did get my sport tech auto at a $4k discount (it has all the mats, z-lit kick plates, mud flaps) - I pd $36k even plus tax and license which I think here in California is a really good price (though it did have 99 miles on it :/)
Anyway, congrats on your nismo - it is one VERY special ride - the 7AT even adds to that fact
the 2015 AT nismo will probably be a collector's item someday.