need help deciding between 6MT and 5AT with paddle shifters
#46
10-17-2006 | 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by DWP
I'm wondering if the compartment between the switches and the armrest has a roll-back (tambour) lid. The grip at the front suggests that it does ... the current E-Class Benz, of all things, has a compartment in the console like that, with a roll-back lid. http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/1...20103424-E.jpg
I also can't tell from the picture if the handbrake handle has a molded handgrip on the bottom, or is just a plain cylinder. Actually, the picture makes it look a bit ... Freudian. Well, as the good doctor supposedly said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
I also can't tell from the picture if the handbrake handle has a molded handgrip on the bottom, or is just a plain cylinder. Actually, the picture makes it look a bit ... Freudian. Well, as the good doctor supposedly said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
#47
10-17-2006 | 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Speedoholic
It's a slider - just like in the previous year 6MT models.
#48
10-17-2006 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DWP
Thanks. The answer to a lot of the questions I ask seems to be, "like it is in the '06 model." Nissаn isn't changing everything between '06 and '07, but I don't have a G35, so I don't start with that baseline knowledge. I do have a Nissаn-built '73 Dаtsun 510, but somehow it's not quite the same ...
Sorry for the assumption. Yeah it a slider. You grab that handle up front and slide it backwards.
BTW, you want to tell me that '73 Datsuns didn't have it?
#49
10-17-2006 | 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by CatOrtega3881
That pic looks like the console is different. Maybe I'm not looking close enough, but it seems to me like the console storage area, cup holders, and armrest are missing???? That can't be right...
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#50
10-18-2006 | 01:20 AM
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Thanks, Goofy!
From these pics of the console in the 6MT, it appears that the center console/armrest are pushed back toward the rear seats a little further than in the automatic. Do you guys think this is true? If so, you may not even be able to rest your arm on the armrest while driving
Maybe it slides forward/back as another poster suggested?
From these pics of the console in the 6MT, it appears that the center console/armrest are pushed back toward the rear seats a little further than in the automatic. Do you guys think this is true? If so, you may not even be able to rest your arm on the armrest while driving
Maybe it slides forward/back as another poster suggested?
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#51
10-18-2006 | 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by CatOrtega3881
I'm having a really tough time deciding between the 6 speed manual transmission and the 5 speed automatic with paddle shifting. I've already put my deposit down but have a couple of days to decide on some of my options.
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I'm kinda confused about this deicision. Any help you guys (and girls) can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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I'm kinda confused about this deicision. Any help you guys (and girls) can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
AFAIK only ATs are on the lot so far.
I don't see how an informed decission can realistically be made w/o testing *both* trannies...
One thing that would concern me is this quote from the LuxCar Canada review.
I also drove the G35 Sport with the six-speed manual transmission – it offers direct, notchy throws but a rather heavy clutch pedal.
#52
10-18-2006 | 10:25 AM
Originally Posted by DWP
'Scuze me if this has already been kicked around, but aren't the pаddle shіfters on the '07 connected to the stеering column instead of the stеerіng whеel? I didn't notice when I drove one on Friday because I didn't try to change gears while cornering. This is an oft-mentioned point in road tеsts of the increasing number of cаrs (e.g., the Hondа Fit!) with pаddle shiftеrs. As you rotate the whеel for a corner your fingers get out of range of the pаddle shiftеrs if the pаddles are fastened to the steerіng column. During my tеst drivе the salesguy did a very impressive job of quick-shifting the AT up and down with the pаddle shiftеrs - but he was on a straight road.
If we're going to be using paddle shifters like we're race car drivers, might as well try to drive like them.
#53
10-18-2006 | 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by shaneotool
It is not proper to shift the car in the middle of a turn, it disrupts the cars balance and grip. You are supposed to downshift before you get to the turn and then hold that gear thru the turn.
If we're going to be using paddle shifters like we're race car drivers, might as well try to drive like them.
If we're going to be using paddle shifters like we're race car drivers, might as well try to drive like them.
You do shift on sweepers, & you do shift exiting once stabilized.
For both the wheel is not yet square.
#54
10-18-2006 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by shaneotool
It is not proper to shift the car in the middle of a turn, it disrupts the cars balance and grip. You are supposed to downshift before you get to the turn and then hold that gear thru the turn.
If we're going to be using paddle shifters like we're race car drivers, might as well try to drive like them.
If we're going to be using paddle shifters like we're race car drivers, might as well try to drive like them.
#55
10-18-2006 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by DWP
People sometimes want to do a lot of things they oughtn't do in an ideal world, such as downshift one more gear when a decreasing-radius onramp or offramp unexpectedly tightens up on them.
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