Enjoy the Porsche my friend. They have the sales clout to justify a manual tranny like Corvette and other best selling sports cars. The NSX is not slated and will not sell enough to warrant extra cost of making two trannies available, especially with such sophisticated technology that needs to be in perfect sync for power delivery. If it was not hybrid, then I could see it happening and I hope the mini-NSX/S2000 rumor will support the manual tranny.
Totally agree.
Whether people admit it or not, the writing is on the wall for the manual gearbox. In 10-15 years, perhaps with the exception of the cheapest cars out there, I suspect all cars will be at least twin clutch.
As for drive engagement rowing through a manual box, that's purely historical. Had electronics pre-dated mechanics, then manual gearboxes might have been button operated, in combination with a clutch. There's nothing magical about the physical action of stirring the gear stick and engaging the clutch, it's an arbitrary result of the lack of a better way at the time and as I said above, is not fundamental to the act of controlling a vehicle, merely a symptom of poor torque spread.
Electric cars simply do not need gearboxes, because the fundamental technology is better in so many ways.
Do people mourn the manual choke?
As for making a manual NSX, N Spec has it right, there's far too much highly integrated technology in the car already to take something as base as the gearbox and opt for the "pure" option. It also would be against the mantra of NSX, which I've inly recently learned about.
On a separate note I would like to compliment the contributors to this forum on their perceptions, intellect and use of language. It's so refreshing compared to the neanderthals I've had to tolerate on so many other car forums. I may not agree with all opinions on here but everyone seems to state their case eloquently and succinctly using the correct language. It's a pleasure to read!