Your weight on the gen 2 is
Your weight on the gen 2 is way off. I have a manual 2010 S sport hatch and it weighed 2960 lbs. with a quart tank of fuel and about 20 lbs of stuff in it. This was on certified scales at SCCA race event. Not even the Speed 3, the heaviest 3, would come up to 3300 lbs. That said, a manual 2015 2.5 would be a blast, although I doubt that it will be an faster or economical than the automatic.