What's with further limiting the appeal of the manual transmission? With 2011 Infiniti is only offering the 6MT fully loaded. Back in the day you could get a G35 coupe with the manual trans, standard with the performance options but no luxury options. It seems like they are further limiting the audience that would buy this car into oblivion!! Also why not offer synchro-rev match on the G37 at least as an option from the 370Z????

 

Fully loaded? I thought it was just the navigation package that comes standard with the 6MT? The tech package is still optional, right?

As for the synchro-rev match trans, that would be cool I guess. I have mixed feelings about it. I enjoy rev matching myself, so I would probably never use it. I guess it's okay as long as I have a way to turn it off.

 

The premium and nav packs are required with the 6mt...

 

well premium is standard on 10's but now on 11's navi is standard.

I think that kinda sux... but awesome for someone getting the car used down the line.

 

Premium was already standard in 2010 on the 6MT.

But I specifically mentioned the Technology package. I believe that package is still optional on the 6MT as well as the 7AT.

 

Yes of course you are all right about the tech pack still being a choice...my point is that they are further restricting how someone can buy a 6MT equipped. For some buyers this will dissuade them and they'll just go with the 7AT or the 3 series. For me it would have probably dissuaded me from buying the 6MT if I had to buy the nav pack as well. And to the used car buyer...if they can even find a 2011+ 6MT...it also restricts how the car could be equipped.

 

The nav package is 1,850 on top of the 6MT's price of 41,000. Really it's not going to restrict many peoples options in terms of price ranges I believe. The old base 6MT without prem/nav maybe would be a different price segment but looks like that is not the direction Infiniti is taking. Like it has been said the 6MT already has premium and of course sport standard. Infiniti probably is adding the nav package standard because the majority of 6MT's were ordered with nav. Although I agree it is always great to have the option of a car exactly how you want it (with or without nav) the majority % of 6MT buyers will probably have ended up ordering the NAV package anyway, else I do not see why Infiniti would want to **** off the 6MT buyers on purpose

 

I don't know why they would want to **** off potential buyers unless they want to prove that sales are so small they will cancel the manual option altogether once they get sales down to only a few hundred a year

 

LOL...they aren't trying to get less 6MT sales. That's silly. They don't need a reason to stop making the 6MT cars. They could easily pull the plug without any reason at all.

Acura isn't big on optional equipment and it seems to work well for them. Most Acuras come fully equipped with no factory options other than navigation. My mother's old TL was that way. You just picked your color and whether or not you wanted navigation.

 

Is this really the G25? These are supposedly pictures of a Chinese showroom housing the G25s...
Spotted: Infiniti G25 sedan

 

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umm old news and uhh... this is 2011 G37 thread...

 

I think Infiniti is making more equipment standard for the 6MT's because nobody is buying them. Seriously, the only time I've ever seen Navi standard on a car is on a Lexus LS or BMW 7 series. By the time the next re-design comes around, the Manual transmission will be dropped.

 

You're silly!

 

Wow some of you are really pissy and bitchy. All I did was mention that it sucks that Infiniti keeps pricing the 6MT into oblivion and there are probably some buyers turned off by that (I would be if I hadn't already bought a 2008). The 6MT now costs about $8000 more than it did in 2008. Nissan sites poor 6MT sales but if they actually took the time to properly engineer the hardware and offer the manual in line with the auto, they would probably sell more of them. I think they offer it mainly as a marketing ploy and that's about it. Yes, it will probably be discontinued on the next model.

 

You are obviously free to offer your opinion, but don't get upset when someone offers an alternate opinion. The problem here is that you suggested that Nissan/Infiniti has some kind of evil motive to raise the cost of the 6MT to the point that nobody buys them anymore....just so Nissan/Infiniti can justify discontinuing the 6MT cars. Come on now, do you really believe that? They are in the business of building and selling cars....think about it.

Did you ever stop to think that Nissan/Infiniti has other reasons to package navigation with the 6MT cars? Maybe they found that the majority of 6MT owners also want navigation in their cars (I got it with my car). Maybe there are other business reasons for them to lump together certain packages with certain models.

Ironically, I was in the market for a G37 in '09, but didn't pull the trigger until the '10 came out. Back in '09, I simply wanted this car: G37 coupe 6MT, premium package, navigation package, rear spoiler. I decided to hold off a while and by the time I was ready to purchase, the '10 models came out. Guess what? Now the premium package was standard on the 6MT. So now I wanted this car: G37 coupe 6MT, navigation package, rear spoiler. The MSRP of the '10 was actually lower than the MSRP on the '09, and the only difference between the two cars was that the '10 had the premium package standard and it was optional on the '09.