Originally posted by RogerB:
True, but they are trying to attract people to Mazda who may have never autocrossed before...widest possible audience, and all that.

I would prefer to be able to "test drive" the stick, but oh well. Probably less chance of some goob shelling out a tranny, as well.



No safer with automatics.. I did a similar event with the Lincoln LS a few years back, and some idiot was doing brake-stands all day, and eventually the tranny gave.