I would like to know more about the 370z's Paddle shifters.

ElVee

If you try to upshift or downshift in a way that is not good, the car
- won't do it
- will beep at you in judgement
- will flash the gear indicator at you

There *will* be times you forget what gear you're in and try to go up or down before you can, and you'll be fine.

The *only* gotcha is if you want to go down, so you pull the paddle just as the car naturally goes down, and you might go down another notch. Again, nothing terrible and won't ever hurt your car, you just might get a little extra engine braking than you expected. Be kind to anyone behind you and feather the brake so they know you're stopping.

And even then, it's nothing like other cars. My Eclipse will happily drop down into first and lurch me to a near-halt. I've never had anything close to that in the 7AT Z.