My new 2010 6MT Opinion & Photos
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04-23-2010 | 03:07 PM
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My new 2010 6MT Opinion & Photos
So today is my 10th day of ownership, and I'm happy to say that I'm enjoying this more than my CLS55 AMG... a lot more, this car brings absolute joy to my life and I can't get enough of driving it, 10 days and I'm near hitting 1000 miles.
The difference between driving a 480HP automatic and a 300HP stick is day and night, it's incomparable, it's like apples and orange, summer and winter, or Tupac and Biggie... 2 different tastes, feels, experiences. A car on stick is a true divers car, your car molds around your style of driving, and as soon as someone else drives it... it feels completely different to you. Now the difference between a 300HP auto and a 300HP stick... is Rosie O'Donnell and Adrianna Lima, at least to me. Auto G's are so sluggish, so unpredictable, so... restricting, it's a 60yo baby sitter you wish you never had when you were 8 years old... COMPARED to a 6MT G. I've driven more than 40 different automatic G's, from modded to stock, from oldest to newest I could officially say that in terms of driving... automatic G35/7's are strictly for getting from point A to B hassle free with no driving enjoyment. There are several dozen of members on here who I know personally who drive automatics, and I can say that those cars... fit their style of driving, they enjoy the car for it's style, reliability, and price, so I'm not saying auto's are wack in all cases, just when it comes to actually driving your car for enjoyment purposes, if you think you enjoy driving your automatic G for pleasure... try a 6MT. I need 100% full control of my car, that's something you don't get with auto's. As for auto vs stick in a race... I'll admit that unless you're a perfect stick driver, you're gunna get your *** handed to you, but I came from a 480HP supercharged V8 that would tare *** and do 0-60 in under 4.5, but having a car on stick... being quicker than someone else, is the least of my concerns. Still learning to drive stick I feel that my car is quick enough... for now, I don't race because I know I'll get my *** handed to me, so I'm enjoying it purely for the control of the car.
Enough about stick...
On to the difference between the 09's and 10's. Just like the change from 04 to 05, it's a huge difference in terms of appearance, makes you think...how the **** did they not think of this earlier, or did they, and decide to save it for last before they completely redesigned the G? The 2 lines added to the front bumper/lights change the look of the sedan drastically, it's SOO much more aggressive, makes the older 2nd gen look like a bitch, I really couldn't ask for a better facelift, it's truly stunning, and the modding possibilities... are endless.
The interior in terms of technology is a step forward as well. Higher resolution nav, much quicker in terms of entering your destination, and navigating through other controls. Weather forecast at the touch of your finger, instant traffic updates, and my favorite... the USB drive, one thing I hated that BMW had, and Infiniti didn't.... and finally does, a multifunction feature with no tacky RCA jacks from the 90's, or iPod wires and ports. Another option I love is the Bluetooth Audio... I use Pandora on my phones a lot, every time I'm in the shower, my Blackberry is there with me playing the music I love, so now... every time I'm in the car, Pandora automatically starts up, I change my audio source to Bluetooth Audio, and have full control over Pandora right through my navigation screen, as soon as I leave the car, Pandora pauses, and goes into idle.
Now for the little things in appearance that make the difference. I'm a huge fan of little chrome accents on the interior, but the opposite for exterior, to me... exterior should never have anything in common with the interior. For the 10's, the Navigation dial is now chrome(I love it lol), used to be silver, the washi trim is a lot darker, and has a nicer deep pattern to it, I actually like it... and plan to keep it till it wears down so I can do some cool stuff to it. The cluster is much nicer looking, I hated the center display that would always stay RED in the previous years, over all the interior is very refreshing. One thing I might alter in the future is relocate the navigation controls into the ashtray compartment so I can navigate with my palm resting on the shifter.
Last but not least.... before the pictures, the mods. So far... I've only spend $90 on this thing and here's what I got done so far.
H&R Springs, slammed the front, mild drop in the rear, ride comfort is almost the same as stock to be honest, it just feels lower, but takes bumps same as stock.... I've always been careful driving around ditches, potholes, or wavy roads so I don't have a problem with hitting **** and bottoming out. This is by far going to be my favorite mod till I get sway bars, or go FI... lol. Changes the look of the car drastically, looks more aggressive.
I'll end up getting some spacers eventually, and a set of 19" OEM's (which ever come cheaper).
I'm trying to spend as least amount of money out of pocket on this car as possible because I'm going to put it towards the big mods, so the mods I end up doing either cost me nothing, or I got them at a crackhead price.
Blacked out the window trim, again... I hate chrome with passion so my 1st priority was to black everything out asap. It's flat black for now, and is easily removable so I'll end up change it up a little in a few weeks.
Blacked out the grille, the chrome trunk spoiler, and the rear emblems, left a portion of the "S" red, the rest black, love the detail
Did front pillars in suede, and AC vents in black, will eventually do the rest of the pillars and headliner.
As for the headlights, you'd think that would be the first thing I did, but honestly... taking care of my customers as quickly as I can, I hardly have anytime for my own headlights, but eventually I'll get to it and blow people away
Posted the rest of the shots here:
https://g35driver.com/forums/picture...-york-bay.html
The difference between driving a 480HP automatic and a 300HP stick is day and night, it's incomparable, it's like apples and orange, summer and winter, or Tupac and Biggie... 2 different tastes, feels, experiences. A car on stick is a true divers car, your car molds around your style of driving, and as soon as someone else drives it... it feels completely different to you. Now the difference between a 300HP auto and a 300HP stick... is Rosie O'Donnell and Adrianna Lima, at least to me. Auto G's are so sluggish, so unpredictable, so... restricting, it's a 60yo baby sitter you wish you never had when you were 8 years old... COMPARED to a 6MT G. I've driven more than 40 different automatic G's, from modded to stock, from oldest to newest I could officially say that in terms of driving... automatic G35/7's are strictly for getting from point A to B hassle free with no driving enjoyment. There are several dozen of members on here who I know personally who drive automatics, and I can say that those cars... fit their style of driving, they enjoy the car for it's style, reliability, and price, so I'm not saying auto's are wack in all cases, just when it comes to actually driving your car for enjoyment purposes, if you think you enjoy driving your automatic G for pleasure... try a 6MT. I need 100% full control of my car, that's something you don't get with auto's. As for auto vs stick in a race... I'll admit that unless you're a perfect stick driver, you're gunna get your *** handed to you, but I came from a 480HP supercharged V8 that would tare *** and do 0-60 in under 4.5, but having a car on stick... being quicker than someone else, is the least of my concerns. Still learning to drive stick I feel that my car is quick enough... for now, I don't race because I know I'll get my *** handed to me, so I'm enjoying it purely for the control of the car.
Enough about stick...
On to the difference between the 09's and 10's. Just like the change from 04 to 05, it's a huge difference in terms of appearance, makes you think...how the **** did they not think of this earlier, or did they, and decide to save it for last before they completely redesigned the G? The 2 lines added to the front bumper/lights change the look of the sedan drastically, it's SOO much more aggressive, makes the older 2nd gen look like a bitch, I really couldn't ask for a better facelift, it's truly stunning, and the modding possibilities... are endless.
The interior in terms of technology is a step forward as well. Higher resolution nav, much quicker in terms of entering your destination, and navigating through other controls. Weather forecast at the touch of your finger, instant traffic updates, and my favorite... the USB drive, one thing I hated that BMW had, and Infiniti didn't.... and finally does, a multifunction feature with no tacky RCA jacks from the 90's, or iPod wires and ports. Another option I love is the Bluetooth Audio... I use Pandora on my phones a lot, every time I'm in the shower, my Blackberry is there with me playing the music I love, so now... every time I'm in the car, Pandora automatically starts up, I change my audio source to Bluetooth Audio, and have full control over Pandora right through my navigation screen, as soon as I leave the car, Pandora pauses, and goes into idle.
Now for the little things in appearance that make the difference. I'm a huge fan of little chrome accents on the interior, but the opposite for exterior, to me... exterior should never have anything in common with the interior. For the 10's, the Navigation dial is now chrome(I love it lol), used to be silver, the washi trim is a lot darker, and has a nicer deep pattern to it, I actually like it... and plan to keep it till it wears down so I can do some cool stuff to it. The cluster is much nicer looking, I hated the center display that would always stay RED in the previous years, over all the interior is very refreshing. One thing I might alter in the future is relocate the navigation controls into the ashtray compartment so I can navigate with my palm resting on the shifter.
Last but not least.... before the pictures, the mods. So far... I've only spend $90 on this thing and here's what I got done so far.
H&R Springs, slammed the front, mild drop in the rear, ride comfort is almost the same as stock to be honest, it just feels lower, but takes bumps same as stock.... I've always been careful driving around ditches, potholes, or wavy roads so I don't have a problem with hitting **** and bottoming out. This is by far going to be my favorite mod till I get sway bars, or go FI... lol. Changes the look of the car drastically, looks more aggressive.
I'll end up getting some spacers eventually, and a set of 19" OEM's (which ever come cheaper).
I'm trying to spend as least amount of money out of pocket on this car as possible because I'm going to put it towards the big mods, so the mods I end up doing either cost me nothing, or I got them at a crackhead price.
Blacked out the window trim, again... I hate chrome with passion so my 1st priority was to black everything out asap. It's flat black for now, and is easily removable so I'll end up change it up a little in a few weeks.
Blacked out the grille, the chrome trunk spoiler, and the rear emblems, left a portion of the "S" red, the rest black, love the detail
Did front pillars in suede, and AC vents in black, will eventually do the rest of the pillars and headliner.
As for the headlights, you'd think that would be the first thing I did, but honestly... taking care of my customers as quickly as I can, I hardly have anytime for my own headlights, but eventually I'll get to it and blow people away
Posted the rest of the shots here:
https://g35driver.com/forums/picture...-york-bay.html
Makes me want to trade in my 04 coupe!
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04-25-2010 | 04:35 PM
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I have a 2010 G37S Coupe 6MT, and couldn't agree with you more. Driving for me is an experience, and I hit the mountains twice a month in my G, and it's so much more engaging with the manual.
I'm not an Auto hater, we have a slushbox in our 08 V8 Explorer and that 6AT is butter smoooooooooooth. However, it's also a different driving experience, and my wife's daily driver. I love the exhaust note from the 4.6L V8, but when I want to have fun, there's nothing like 3 pedals and shifter. Not this slapstick auto stuff. Short throw automatic = lolz.
I'm not an Auto hater, we have a slushbox in our 08 V8 Explorer and that 6AT is butter smoooooooooooth. However, it's also a different driving experience, and my wife's daily driver. I love the exhaust note from the 4.6L V8, but when I want to have fun, there's nothing like 3 pedals and shifter. Not this slapstick auto stuff. Short throw automatic = lolz.
