Yeah our drafted take was pretty much “this is a very European car and it feels like it.” It just feels foreign over here, but it’s very nice.

The people seeking it out want the big engine.

I was going to say that there aren’t many choices other then a G70 if you want a new RWD manual sedan.

I’ve got an E90 335i xDrive with a manual. Damned if I’ll be getting rid of that any time soon.

It’s strange how they constantly fuck this one crucial aspect up every damn time. If it’s not forcing you to take the lesser engine* than you’re locked out of the rest of the good option packages. I was afraid for the Bronco when I heard you can only get the turbo-four with three pedals, and then out right pissed…

I was planning to sell my manual 135i because I have too many cars. Yesterday, I took it out on a spirited drive in the santa cruz mountains - to pick up 50 lbs of tomatoes - with the kids. One of them threw up. But I had a goddamned blast and changed my mind on the sale.

At this point, a manual transmission in anything, is for people actively seeking it out.  Even when we bought our Fit - every option on the lot was an automatic, save for one.  Even people looking to buy bargain basement, entry level, cars want an automatic now - and, realistically, can probably only get one.

I suspect like this combo makes a lot more sense in other markets; you’d expect there to be a manual available on a big saloon in Europe for example. Sure it’s not going to feel like a sports car, it’s going to feel like a regular luxury car with a stick shift like the other 5 options on the market.

I’m not going to argue that a manual transmission makes sense in the G70. Honestly, they never should have bothered. They were dooming it to failure by making it and the V6 mutually exclusive options. It wouldn’t have sold enough with the V6 to keep it as an option either, but at least it wouldn’t have seemed like…

Right? I’m STILL enjoying my 2008 A4 Avant with a pretty solid 6MT drivetrain on the daily (or well almost daily given COVID). I have GPS with traffic (sometimes, RDS-based TMS is sort of unreliable), leather, and all that jazz. The manual neither adds nor subtracts from the pacakge, objectively. Subjectively, it…

Agreed. I had a 2010 Audi S4, manual. Automated everything, with a nice fat short stick in the middle. It was a sublime match, much like my Chromecast audio paired with my Jolida tube amp - until the usual VAG electrical demons came for it and destroyed the experience.

i don’t really understand the confusion of driving a vehicle like this. the transmission is simply an option. granted a very complicated and expensive option to offer multiple versions of, but still just an option.

If you’re willing to get something that’s not a Nissan, the closest car to the 240SX on sale at the moment is the twins.

Thank you. I really hope someone at Nissan sees this, because that instantly fixes the one major design issue I see with this car.

That looks way better, great job dude!

This car is the closest I’ll ever get to a modern 240sx and I’m fine with that. It ticks every single box for me. I’m not in love with the big grill, but I don’t hate it.

I’ll be buying one when it launches.

This is flawless. 

Imagine this but by someone with real photo-editing skills.

Me likey! It’s like “Z’s Greatest Hits,” and I mean that in a good way.

Looks pretty fantastic to me. If the can keep the basic one around the $30k the current 370Z starts at, and bring it to market as a 2022 next August they might have a winner on their hands.