You learn from your mistakes. Will this be a mistake? Only time will tell. I did get a great deal on mine from a young man who was in college. He decided it wasn't the right time and I got the deal.

Get the manual. I have to laugh when my daughter has to pull her car out of the car wash because no one there can drive a stick.........The auto's now days are generally excellent but there is just something about doing it yourself.

Oh lol. I actually had to good VDC to figure out what you are talking about. :D
And for me, it will probably stay on for a few years until I get on a track or something. :tup:

wait, is she pulling out someone else's car? or is someone pulling out her car?

I taught her to drive a manual. She hated me for it but now wants a manual car. She has to pull the manual car she drives out of the car wash because, generally, none of the employees know how to drive a manual. It is funny watching them come into the waiting area and asking her to pull the car out, so they can dry it. ;)

ive had a mazda dealer ask me to pull another customer's MT car out of the parking spot to get to another car they wanted to show another customer. :facepalm:

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Wow..That would be greatly embarrassing for those workers lol :tup:

:rofl2: This really makes me want to get a MT :tup:

I disagree with this statement entirely. I think that SRM is a novice MT driver's best friend. Do I think that someone with zero MT experience should start out in this car? Well no, but if they're gonna get one I think that they have some help that would make the MT not as bad of a choice as it might be in some other sports cars. :tup:

Yes! I seriously don't understand why people complain as much as they do about the MT in this car. It is simply a matter of finding out what the car wants and giving it to her. I don't have upgraded clutch line or fluid and it is perfectly smooth when driven properly. It makes noise if you drop the clutch hard while coasting at low RPMs in 1st and 2nd gear; if you disengage the clutch slowly its smooth as butter with no noise. Every MT is different and its just a matter of getting the feel for it. I had a 1994 Explorer Sport 5MT that I could drop out of gear without touching the clutch at certain RPMs. The play in the clutch engagement was outrageously wide. My Honda Accord 6MT clutch was much tighter, but incredibly smooth even without perfect shifts. Those cars were completely different, as is the MT in the Z.

I love my MT, and we would never have considered purchasing an AT Z. However, that's just my opinion, and certainly does not imply that you have to get an MT to enjoy this car. I guarantee you there are people with AT that love their car and transmission as much as I do :tup:

Get it and boost it right away