I'm use to a six-speed manual transmission, but my wife wants an AT. Has anyone gone from a MT to AT and regretted it? Also, is the 2007 AT manual-mode any fun?

Thank you.

 

Get the MT , if she wants to drive it she can suck it up .

 

My automatic transmission is great. Holds up well, shifts nicely. The sports mode makes it nice to shift through the gears when you want to get on the throttle. A lot of people make fun of the Z's automatic ... but what they don't notice is ... there basically is no significant difference in speed between the MT and AT. It only matters when you get to doing work such as forced induction, or other things.

It depends if you want to dance in the car, or just sit there.

 

Don't come around here starting no trouble!

 

You can always teach the wife M/T if she doesnt know how

 

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lol! If you ever track/autox your car, you'd see quite a large difference.

Get the M/T, but get a rental car over the weekend and teach her to drive stick in that.

 

I taught my wife (at age 40) and my 3 daughters to drive manual tranny crs.

My daughters learned on 914s and MR2s, and my wife learned on my Fiat Strada.

Teacher, students, and all vehicles survived unharmed.

You have to try really hard to damage a clutch/ tranny.

bill

 

my 5AT does me just fine til' i get outta college and get an MT =]

 

i taught my then gf how to drive manual on my Z. she picked it up in like 15 mins. dont have the Z anymore, i miss driving MT. one day, i'll get another one....

 

some forum members with a/t tt z's would beg to differ.

 

i disagree my freinds 2006 enthusas automatic loses almost 2 cars against my 2003 touring manual and on the highway it loses even worse. And i must have raced it 15 times i pull on it effortless the auto 1st gear feels like my second gear. Do not get the auto the difference is very noticable i drove both several times and if i couldnt have a manual z i would never get the auto a z in auto is a sad thing to me. Also the 2006 auto loses by a half a car to a wrx with TBE the same wrx loses to me by 2 - 3 cars off the line and from a roll forget about it. O yeh the guy just sold his auto z cause i think he was so mad the manual was faster he should be gettin a 6speed soon his car only had 4000 miles and its already gone

 

Another one of these? Mods should lock the thread already... Just look at the stupid title "AT of 6MT?" You guys are debating over a topic that's not even grammatically correct! Just leave it!

 

 

tell her to learn to drive stick (on some else's car) or she won't be driving your car

 

Why not try me in my auto 2007 then?
I assure you the manumatic mode combined with the VQ35HR is a fierce competitor. Even a brutal one with the TT setup on it with an unlocked tranny, you wouldn't know what hit you!

Peace!

 

Then there is somethng wrong with his car.

bill

 

Mods please lock this thread

 

The problem is not his Z . . . it's the driver. I autocross my 5AT Z and usually post faster times than EVOs, WRXs, Lotus's, M3s, even a Porsche C4S, and an occassional C6/Z06. Trust me, 6MT or 5AT Zs are fast (and with the proper mods, even faster) -- it comes down to the driver.

 

Manual gives you a much more rewarding driving experience. Automatics are boring. Perhaps I'm old school but I would never buy a sports car that is automatic I don't care how much faster it shifts. Unless you have some injury or are really old, (older than me 39) get a manual.