Why I won't buy a G35

[jamG356MT]

hey there, just signed up on this site and i have been reading all sorts of forums. i recently just got a 03 g35 6mt sedan, and i absolutly love the car. i was too close to buying a 03 325i and i so glad that i didn't. as everyone has said, it beats bmw in every aspect, and i am a huge fan of bmw's. they are just too overpriced to the car you get, unless you opt for a m5. the 6mt is awsome, i was about to get the auto, but the salesman told me to wait for 2 weeks and they would have em in, a week later he called, it came in early, that was in march.

[bk2kmax]

Originally posted by jamG356MT
hey there, just signed up on this site and i have been reading all sorts of forums. i recently just got a 03 g35 6mt sedan, and i absolutly love the car. i was too close to buying a 03 325i and i so glad that i didn't. as everyone has said, it beats bmw in every aspect, and i am a huge fan of bmw's. they are just too overpriced to the car you get, unless you opt for a m5. the 6mt is awsome, i was about to get the auto, but the salesman told me to wait for 2 weeks and they would have em in, a week later he called, it came in early, that was in march.

Welcome to the forum and Congrats on the purchase of a great car, hope to see you on the board more often. If you really want to see some hot drama come and join me over at the maxima forum, it gets pretty hot and heavy over there from time to time.

[kahboom]

There are some things that you can do in some autos to increase efficiency off the line. One is break torquing (sp?) If you become familiar with your cars threshold off the line you can usually gain some advantage vs. a manual off the line (in many new cars). This makes up for the loss of power through the torque converter.
Also by slightly fluctuating your throttle position (disengaging slightly. during your cars shift points, it fools your torque converter into thinking that you are going to disengage your throttle and it tries compensate by allowing transfer of more power to the tranny when shifting. As soon as you have it fooled, you reengage full throttle and you get a slight boost going into second gear. This also tricks your air and fuel system into giving you a little more juice during shift points once you reengage the throttle. Because most of the trickery happens while your car is shifting, you do not lose acceleration due to reduced throttle.