I take your point brodick about could be me'the driver',my previous car ,was the excellent 98 civic
cvt model and I now realise how much better it was as an auto.However I did manage to get my dealer to contact Honda UK about the i shift-yes they have modified some pre registered 07 cars but have not got planned to modify existing customers cars at the moment,but it might happen in about 4/5 months(some development I suppose).