That was my thought process exactly. Ultimately, the low end torque is the same on the base vs. the S -- so the extra HP is only valuable at higher speeds. Given that they added more features as standard to each trim, I was actually ok with the Base and the dealer (surprisingly) agreed with my analysis (although, they probably could see which way I was leaning).

Funny -- your VIN is 19 before mine. Go to the ww site:

Home

Put the VIN into the field on the "tracking" tab under "Cargo ID". Let us know if yours is visible -- it'll help to ease our own neurotic tendency to check every 30 seconds....

 

99Gsp, welcome to the forum. You are officially the 11th person here who has ordered the 6 speed. After you've been to the Wallenius site to determine the ship your car is on, you can track that ship at www.marinetraffic.com. This tracking system only works about a couple hundred miles offshore, so you'll lose track for a few days as it crosses open ocean.

 

Thanks for the tracking tip. No record found when I tracked.

 

Looks like a bunch of us will be loaded on to the vessel The Tosca for a June 30th departure.....

 

New to site, but have been following for a month or so. Ordered (Toronto, Canada) May 4th a base model, 6-speed, premium with vision, ammonite grey, no ETA yet, but supposedly Aug built (dealership used one of their allocation) and Sept delivery in theory.

 

Atlantic Cartier in Haifax in a few hours

 

Welcome. The third Torontonian to have a 6sp on order.
I put my order in on May 1st, and the car will hopefully be on the ship next week. Which dealer are you ordering your car from?

 

You manual guys must not drive on the DVP very much....

 

Every 401/400 traffic mess I sit in is easily offset by every glorious moment spent on the 407.

 

If you've been around long enough to have "high-mileage" and have been driving manuals for decades, shifting is a reflex much like blinking. You essentially don't realize you're doing it. Working the clutch in stop-and-go traffic is no more bothersome than constantly massaging the throttle pedal.

 

This.
Have been driving MT for 6 years. Actually prefer it in traffic

 

+1. Shifting, I think, actually helps to relieve the boredom in traffic.

 

Funny thing is for me now that reflex has transferred to paddle shifting after using it almost exclusively in my F-Type. When I'm in my new Jeep in stop-and-go traffic, which happens to have a 9-speed version of the ZF auto, I'm constantly reaching for paddles that don't exist.

Using the paddles in the F-Type is also a good cure for gridlock boredom associated with constant starts and stops.

 

It's definitely better than not doing anything, but for me, there's nothing like slipping the shifter into 2nd, then 3rd... especially after winding the engine up.

 

+1

I couldn't possibly agree more! I'm a die-hard manual guy, but I bought the F-Type anyway at a time when no manual was on the horizon. It's the only automatic I've ever found "acceptable." However, I will more than likely sell my current one at some point and pick up a manual F-Type.

 

To answer your question NavMD, I ordered mine from the Steeles and Yonge location. And you?

 

Just an update on my build. 8070 came out of trim on June 16 and now is in post build inspection. For others with vins around mine that might be of interest. Wish I could get a pic of it waiting to ship!

 

Re-posting, as I realized I had not replied to your specific posting. To answer your question, I ordered mine from the Steeles and Yonge location. And you?

 

Ordered mine from Budds in Oakville. So far, they've treated me well.

 

Not quite so, clutch can be more "bothersome" than accelerator. I'm older now and have been driving stick shifts all my life. Two of my four current cars are manual trannys. I still have my first car, a 1965 Triumph TR-4.

As much as I love to drive a manual, where I am fully in control of the engine, there are two driving situations where I really don't want a stick, especially not an older guy like me. First, in heavy stop-and-go traffic, as referred to by DuhCar. One time stuck on a CA freeway in S&G traffic, my wife was at the wheel and it was hot too. After 45 minutes of creepalong, she was literally crying that she couldn't hold the clutch in any longer being at the end of her physical endurance. We didn't think it safe for me to switch with her, so I suggested she put the car in neutral and apply the hand brake, and let a few car lengths open between us and the car ahead, so she could rest her leg, before she engaged it again. That just wasn't fun at all. Second, on a 4-wheel mountain track road. They can be so rough and bouncy that you can hardly keep your foot in place, or slip the clutch when needed without coming off the pedal. It's much better to have an automatic for those "drives"? Just pout it in first gear and let it idle along.

I think you have to evaluate a manual transmission in the car to fully evaluate it. I recently test drove an Aston Martin Vantage V8. There is no way I would want to drive that car in rush hour traffic; clutch engagement is much to stiff, tiresome, and physically taxing. Almost the same for the Porsche Cayman. Whereas my BMW 328i manual is a joy to drive anywhere, but not on a 4-wheel mountain track of course. And I do have to think about my wife.

When I test drove the F-Type, Wow! Total agreement with you Foosh, finest automatic I have ever driven. But not in agreement with you on this post. And I didn't want to order a manual F-Type without test driving it. But yeah if it is a good one, I may consider one in the future.