Dream car as my first MT?

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If I'm being unbiased (from my perspective). I got the MT for a few reasons. Nismo doesn't come with anything else, and it's a sports car, so I just automatically assumed to get it. I've driven plenty of manuals so I wasn't expecting anything out of left field.

This MT isn't very good IMO. It's not "bad", but I wouldn't say it's good either. The AT is way, WAY, better for street driving.

Having driven a few MT Nissan's from many different years, and plenty of other MT from other car companies, I think Nissan just sucks at making MT's. Especially second gear... every single MT Nissan I've ever driven has an issue with second. I don't see this in other cars.

Like I said, it's not bad, and once you get used to it, you won't even notice the flaws. But honestly, unless you plan to track it, I would get the AT. Having said that, if I did it all over again, I will still get the Nimso edition and get the MT. So... I don't know what that means :/ guess it makes me a hypocrite.

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Hookah

Interesting, we can't even tell which side you are on

Anyways, as far as I can tell, this isn't about whether AT or MT is better, but about if the OP can pull this off as he thinks this may be his last chance to ever do so. If you don't do it and you get an AT, you will always wonder what a MT sports car was like. I know I personally couldn't live with that feeling

You said something about taking turns in second gear, and yeah, that is normally what I do. First gear is just to get the car going, so if you are doing some regular driving, when you get passed like 5 mph or so, just throw it to 2nd gear.

I moved from a manual corolla, which I only rode for a short amount of time, so there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to do it, specially when you have some experience with MT. Once I got my MT Z, I never looked back even after I drove my friends automatic Z. Driving his Z actually made me even happier I got mine in MT.

isayimandrew

have you tried driving the 2006-2008 Honda Civic SI? 2nd gear on that sucks worse! Honda even had to do a recall after all these people kept complaining that 1st-2nd gear and 2nd - 3rd would grind almost all the time, even when the clutch was pushed all the way down.