RW, Thanks for the feedback. I am pretty sure that I want an automatic for my next car. The new 5 speed automatic on the XT's has the convenient steering wheel gear selector that can be used to combat turbo lag while cruising in "drive". Unfortunately SOA doesn't offer this feature in the new 6 cylinder models. Your comment about the 90-10 torque split (front to rear) seems to conflict with the sales info from SOA. Do you have any references about this problem.