I just completed the new owners survey sent out for Honda by a research firm in California, and there was a question specifically about the option of a sequential manual shifter as an option. As I commute in heavy traffic, I answered in the affirmative - assuming it was more like the BMW version rather than the Toyota one. I thought that the specific inclusion of this question must mean that they are considering that type of tranny in the future, as it asked about the auto shifted manual rather than the manually shiftable auto as mentioned in JDM press snippets. (zf trans)

Good Day! - Rick