So, I was all set on ordering my '24 GT with the A10 until I drove a Cadillac CT5 V with a rev-matching 6spd manual (a Tremec, to be precise). I had forgotten how much fun it was to drive a powerful car with a bawdy, burbling exhaust and a rev-matched manual.
Certainty turned to ambivalence...
You talk as if buying a new car is a totally objective, numbers only experience - which, for most people, it decidedly is not. @Upacurb will have coveted, drooled over, ordered, waited impatiently for months, then eventually will take delivery of his DH and be the happiest man on earth; 0-60 and...
Haha. My son tried to talk me out of Race Red; implying that I was 'too old' for such a 'flashy' color. I told him that if I cared about what other people thought of my color/car choices, I'd get a beige Camry. I'm ordering a race Red GT PP Manual w/active exhaust the minute they become...