Originally Posted by
rsbob
Sacrilegious heathen! How could you drive such an abomination? (The Macan has paddle shifters, which I use in manual mode and the 71 has a 3.0 with the traditional dog-leg 5 speed). So get yourself to church and say 10 Hail Marys.
Anyone that buys a Miata with an automatic has never driven a Miata with a manual. One of the great-shifting sticks, from day one in the series.
928s were few with manuals in the USA, vast majority automatics. The manual 5 was on the GT pattern (1st down and left), with narrow gates laterally and a long throw fore/aft, so it took some getting used to. However if it was stuck, like driving across the alps from Switzerland into Italy, and you had to rock it, R up and left and 1st down and left, allowed fast switches between the two.