Dealer says "grinding into second is not abnormal"

FERRARI

I am getting ready to order a 2011....but after hearing about this problem and others....like oil consumption ......rattles...etc......I am having second thoughts......I had a new 1970 Z....and hear all of the guys on here talk about how great they were, and to be quite honest, it was a great "Top End" car....but was so slow of the line and so cheap inside the cabin that my friends made fun of it. I had just sold a 1967 ( 427 4 Speed ) because I was going to graduate school, and most of my friends had GTOs and Vettes. While in graduate school in Atlanta, I was fortunate to find the BRE Racing Datsun dealership North of Atlanta and have them modify my car, they were just getting started on what turned out to be a very long and successful career in racing. Of course Nissan was then called "DATSUN" and no one had every seen a Z car before. I cut the "DATSUN" emblems in half...making them read "SUNDAT"
I was getting ready to order a 2011 this week....but now after hearing all of these problems I dont know what I am going to do.
I apologize for getting off topic.