Perfectly acceptable reasoning. Even before I drove manuals, long before I owned one, I wanted to drive manuals. I never liked not having FULL control over the car.

If I lived in Los Angeles, where there's no winter, I'd probably have grown on manuals but in all honesty the winters we get here make stickshifts all-the-more complicated. I have to admit I'm not great on a stick. I've never liked manuals, I never saw the point in shifting your own gears. I'm the kind of person that wants the 370z as a daily driver, and get a few ***** and giggles every now and then when I smoke ricer tuners in their Civics with the 7-speed manual mode.

LOL! Also good reasoning.

I drive manuals without even thinking about it. But when I want to drive like I'm part of the car... I can! :D

so um how much u guys think it'll be?

I think it was not much more... Like a few hundred extra.

My z was manual and I had an accident and is very difficult for me to drive manual again. I have a 335i with paddles and I love it. I think the new auto trans with paddles allow people like me who love manual trans, but cn't drive them to continue enjoying fast cars with the best of both world

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I test drove a Z with paddles last night. I was reluctant and hesitant to try it out because, well my 350Z was stick and I loved it...and even tho the synchro rev match is a newbie feat, it's so cool when you try it out! But back to paddles...it was different. Very different actually. I don't know whether or not I like it more than stick, but I couldn't sleep last night just recalling on the experience. It definitely did feel like I was playing Gran Turismo on my Logitech steering wheel with paddles. I felt a higher tendency to speed. I wondered if I might accidentally downshift on a high speed corner, which would get me to slide, because the paddle is so near the wheel. Even if you are a pro racer, it's going to be rough consistently shifting faster than paddles (~0.2s shift time). There's a reason why Lamborghini and Ferrari have gone with paddles. On the freeway it wasn't too much different than a stick, since most people chill at 6th gear anyway...but I missed down shifting on a stick when I wanted to switch lanes and go past a car...I don't know what I like more. It's a really hard decision. I don't want to sound old fashion...and performance wise, stick is not the best choice, but when i'm at a red light, i want to be able to rock back and forth, i want to feel like i am the car and not just someone driving it...i like the fact that not too many people can drive stick and therefore can't drive my car...i like the rumble on the clutch...i like popping the clutch...but I can't but seeing as paddles as more...elegant? Classier? How cool would it be to go on a date with paddles and make her be like, woah...high class guy. And then when i'm holding my gfs hand i can just set it to auto without having to let go all the time...i dunno, it's these things I think about too.

I will never buy an auto if I have a choice not to. Auto is simply too boring for me to drive especially in hour commutes. And Yes I do get stuck in hour long traffic jams at times and manual is what keeps me from dozing off after getting off work.

I miss my 6 sp. ;( Your rocking back and forth at a light comment saddened me. I was on a date a few months back and the girl asked...why didn't you get the manual? To which I could only reply... I'm stupid? There is no better feeling than a manual trans IMO. The next vehicle will once again have a manual.

Yeah, the stick keeps me awake during traffic too. At first I found it annoying--stalling was embarrassing. It wouldn't happen often, but it would happen. I fear we might be left behind...like imagine when we have kids...oh, my dad was born before the millenium...he likes to drive stick. By the same token though, if paddles were so much better than stick, why weren't they standard for the NISMO? Paddles though, might still keep you awake during traffic. It wasn't bad. It was fun. Different fun from stick though. All it really is, is a signal to ...well, shift...instead of having to push down on the clutch and select the gear. I would downshift 2 gears at a time too, just to see what would happen, and it worked wonderfully. It's just different. You can also like an Initial D arcade, except up is up and down is down...and unlike the 350Z, it's instant.