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All cars are different. Mine felt funny for about the first couple dozen shifts that I made and then I quickly adapted to it and never have had an issue.
I've been driving MT's since 1968 and learned the individual characteristics of each car in a matter of a few miles. Turn off your phone and stereo and listen to your car. Get in touch with it, feel how the different components interact and if you have at least normal hand/leg coordination it won't be a problem. My only beef is the delay in the rev's dropping between 1st and 2nd caused by the heavy flywheel inertia. I can't shift as quickly as I'd like but it's not a big deal. |
Since sold the 350 I've never driven a z as a test drive. Just bought it, the dealer was surprised that I didn't stall it.
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My 97 WS6 engages so much easyer and smooth the torque and Tremic 6 speed are superior to my 370 which requires finese and I find my self going into 3rd gear from 1st in the morning. I live in a cultisac that turns and decends and its always smooth.:rolleyes:
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Worst clutch car I ever drove.. Saturn Ion. I hated that thing. It never felt connected to the road. It felt like a terrible MadCatz video game controller.
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My cars been in the shop for a week.
All that means is that I haven't driven a clutch for a week so I was a little out of practice. Got the car back, and I was doing terrible. I was giving myself a headache. Then I realized the SRT wasn't on. Turned it on, and I was happy. When I got the car 6 months ago I didn't like the idea of the SRT. I'm too old school and like the "do it yourself" downshifting. But after I tried it for a while, I can't do without it. That's pathetic, but true. |
i do think the clutch/transmission is difficult in this car.
i've never had issues matching revs or stalling, but the damn transmission rattles and shakes on clutch-in in first and second below 3000 rpms. all the time. regardless of smoothness or clutch depression speed. it conditions a driver to always shift out of first and second at well above 3k rpms, but that's not always possible in traffic, and honestly.. should a driver have to do that? if you're in traffic and have to let off the gas in first or second and clutch in quickly, there are rattles and shakes under the car that have nothing to do with the quality of your clutch-work. sometimes those situations just happen in traffic. it's the one huge pet peeve i have about the z. i understand this is endemic to 370z transmissions and it's a trade-off i'm happy to make in exchange for the serious performance of the car. but.. does it make the z harder to drive? i think so, definitely. |
I had a Camaro SS with much more torque and power than a Z, much lower gearing than stock, and it was much easier to drive smooth.
The Z has a very tricky clutch to run smooth. Whereas the old SS had a good inch of pedal feel between off and on, the Z seems to have about 1 centimeter. And because the car has a light flywheel, it's easy to stall it. In the Camaro, you could just let out the clutch at idle and it would walk off smoothly. The Z needs some revs, but it's hard to get off smooth and not feel like you're doing a jack rabbit getaway. Keep practicing. |
The 370z? Difficult to drive? All the 370z reviews I've watched, the test drivers were all pretty convinced that the car is extremely easy to drive compared to other sports cars.
If the 370z was your first manual maybe I could understand your frustration but if you've driven a manual before the learning curve for the 370z is about the same. It just takes maybe 10-15 minutes to get used to the feel and then you're solid from there. |
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