I think it's complete crap that there is no manual option, and that is based on my feeling after driving Nissan GTRs a few times. You cannot fault the performance, but there just isn't enough driving involvement to win some of us over.

The car will be faster, but not as much fun. Porsche was always great in that they gave you both options, and now that they won't do it on their highest performance models it's definitely the end of an era.