Honestly hard to tell when production/release is going to start when they haven't even officially announced the changes for next year internationally. Only the limited model for Japan has been confirmed through media.
@zrk has loads of experience with power.
Wouldn't reccomend pure, get a flex fuel kit, meth is good but not necessary, stock charge pipe is fine unless you need aftermarket for meth kit.
You'll need to price in getting a tune whether cloning your ecu or not.
You'll be waiting just as long for parts as you would the car. Let alone the down time to get all the coding right.
Just sell the 2.0 once you get the call for the MT.
I thought you couldn't read true boost levels because the ecu would always be showing "stock numbers" because jb+ tricks the ecu by telling it that it's producing lower boost and the ecu compensates for it. So if stock boost is 14 psi, Jb+ says you're running at 11 psi, then ecu compensates for...