This OS crap will be their justification for making the Nissan IDx CVT only, in America at least. The buying public at-large is far too concerned with social networking to worry about shifting or, you know, safely driving the car.
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Just give me the NISMO version of the IDx with a manual transmission, you bastards! I don't care about surfing Facebook while driving.
Yeah! There was horses and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident!
I have yet to see one of those late-model Audi coupes driven in a reasonable, non-asshat manner.
Look, it's even called the Jalap-eno!
I'll expect to see these being driven passive-aggressively soon!
It is ALWAYS a gold or beige Honda or Toyota. Always. Just earlier on my drive home from work, I watched a gold Toyota Sienna ignore a yield sign and nearly sideswipe the car with right-of-way into oncoming traffic at 60mph. Didn't even notice what they did.
I sincerely hope that they don't so something so half-assed. I feel if they can engineer an entirely new car (on what I assume to be an entirely new platform), they can offer more than just a CVT.
I respect your opinion. But, if they can put a 6-speed manual in the basic Nissan Versa hatchback, they can put one in their proposed sports car.
I'm just waiting to hear whether or not the NISMO version at least would come with a manual. If it's confirmed that the IDx Nismo will go into production and with a manual transmission, I'll start putting money away towards getting one when they're expected to arrive in 2016.
Just make it available with a manual,…
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What's the deal with tunnel bots? I mean, come on!
They need to make it with a manual, and they will have my business. Hopefully they won't slap us in the face by selling it as a manual everywhere else in the world, but only giving us an automatic / CVT version with an open differential and lots of cupholders and shiny gadgets.
I want this with a manual, but the cynical side of me agrees with you. They'll sell it exactly like this everywhere else in the world, but for some reason they'll convert it to a FWD CVT hybrid for the US market only, and then claim it's because they needed to make room for more cupholders.
Nissan will have my business if they make this with a manual. A CVT would ruin this car, and this is not the car to have paddle shifters. This is not a F1 car and it's not going to be an extremely powerful car. If the BRZ / FRS / FTHachi-Tofu-Six can have one, so can this Nissan.
But of course the manual only comes on the no-frills base model. So it's there, but only on a 2WD with what I assume to be an open-diff (have to pony up more for the full package to include the locking diff, but only with automatic) to make sure it's useless on everything but dry pavement, and the gutless engine. Let…
Failing to purchase snow tires or understanding the physics behind driving a car, and then dawdling along at 15mph in a 50mph zone directly in the middle of the road because there are snow flurries present, and then flipping out at anyone that passes you. Because if YOU can't handle driving in the snow, it's a fact…
It seems like I see more of those Malibus broken down beside the road than any other car.
The fact that he's been able to pull it off on a college kid budget makes it even more incredible. I was able to do some filming with him that will appear on the first episode of the series and he's a real class act.