up shift is choice D.

I actually had to look it up in the owners manual which gives some indication of how often I find it a useful feature.

basically a useless feature.

 

Our TL has a left-right move the stick thing, which I have never been able to get used to.
My RDX has paddles and I really like them a lot. Left hand downshift, right hand upshift.

 

The TL in 2010 will have the 6 speed manual option. Unfortunately, only 3500 will be built, 5% of the fleet.

 

I am not sure the demand will be that high. And if it is, I think you can rest assured they'll just make more.

 

I hope that you are right, but when the G37 Infiniti came out you couldn't get a manual transmission. I tried for 3 month's and eventually gave up.

 

They've changed it in later years, then. I had a 2000 TL that you moved the stick to the right to enter manual mode and then it was forward to upshift and back to downshift.

 

The new,Double-Clutches tranny,paddle shifters,in the high-end cars,are faster,and more efficient,than manual tranny...they shift in "miliseconds"...something,the human cannot do...

But ,I still prefer a good 6 speed manual tranny...makes me feel "in control",even,if I'm not...

My next car,will be a Ferrari California Spyder,6 speed manual...

in my dreams...

 

I once had the opportunity of driving a car with an X-trac sequential trans and it was set-up to go to higher gears by pulling back and up-shifting to lower gears by pushing forward

Drag racing automatics work this way too (reverse valve body)

This is the most natural way for me

 

That's the traditional sequential gearbox found in many, many, many forms of racecars, although I think I would have said pushing lever forward to downshift instead of 'up-shifting to lower gears by pushing forward' because I always think when I go to a lower gear I'm downshifting, not up-shifting...

To me this is what makes the most sense also because I have and use a true sequential gearbox, mine in a 6-speed, only in my application it is down for downshifts and up for upshifts because the lever is mounted horizontally, not vertically, on the motorcycle.

 

The pull back on accel and push on decel makes the most sense in that it works with your own momentum rather than against it.
Under hard accel it is much harder to push away than pull.

likewise when under hard braking momentum is thrusting your arm forward.