ok, shingo BB6 doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, the tiptronics are crap. You can check out the hundreds of complaints against Honda at the NTSB website, also there is currently a class-action suit against Honda regarding the failure of warranting the tranny due to their own crappy use of cheap components. I drive my car more carefully then anyone you would ever know, never sportshift it, and am own a second tranny after only 60K miles. On preludeonline.com, there is a thread at the top of the 5th gen page. There are guys on there who have had 2-3 tranny's swapped by honda, and they all fail. Never buy an automatic lude.