automatic transmission on the Nomad would have been nice

Mako is superior.
•big gun
•doesn't slow down going over the smallest of bumps (makes the Nomads 4/6 wheel drive thing a joke)
•doesn't need boost to climb mountains
•also doesn't respawn if you fall off the mountains like the nomad. There's various instance where I was intentionally trying to go off a mountain to reach a destination, only for the game to then respawn me back ontop the mountain once I made it halfway down.

I haven't played the game since launch, beat it in 7?8 days, been done with it since. I'm going by memory more so than how the game is currently setup. So changing settings won't be happening.

just understand I liked the mako, besides its clunky turning and maneuvering I still consider it better by far at traversing straight up a mountain (there were much more mountains in ME1 and just look at all the memes with it). The Nomad is a racing mako with no gun to me, has the speed but lacks the power.

I liked the mako as well, but I have found that the nomad is equally capable of climbing (and rapidly descending) mountains as the mako was... even mores capable because with the mako all you could really do if you lost forward momentum while climbing was to slide back down and take another run at it and sometimes snaking around a bit would help.  If you were trying to climb a point where it just wasn't in the programming, you were hooped no matter what.  With the nomad, you can do a lot by just hitting the boost and the right moment (just before you totally lose forward momentum).  My only "complaint" about the nomad is a lack of a forward brake mechanic for stopping a forward descent (unless I just haven't figured out the timing yet to activate a reverse boost); but a well-timed forward boost while going uphill works great, IMO.

Yes, some people are butt hurt about the gun.  I would have loved a gun myself; but that's still no reason to unfairly represent what the nomad does do by implying that it cannot climb... because it can climb... very very well.  The player has a great deal more control over the nomad precisely because they can switch between 4- and 6-wheel drive (and later between agility mode and standard mode) and add in a boost to either mode.

Also, I think it's great that I can now use the nomad as cover and not have to worry about it blowing up in my face right away.  Really, for the shields the mako was supposed to have on it in the lore, it really couldn't take much "heat" at all.  I'm also quite sure that if there was a gun on the more heavily shielded nomad, people would be whining about the game being way too easy because they'd just sit inside and pot shot everything from the safety of the nomad.

A "thing" I frequently see here with people making complaints about the game is a tendency to try to make their complaint a "universal, locked-in" problem and then they instantly put in on the developer to "fix it."; whereas frequently, it is that they're unwilling to explore various options designed to give the player(s) a more individualized experience (just saying).

Awesome shots at any rate!

A gun on the Nomad would have necessitated different and more dangerous encounters. ME1 had lots of long range turrets and geth armatures/colossi that can get you from a long way off. 

this the lack of terrain's diversity however

Which is why I say open up the Nomad via a turret hole. Okay, it's not a military expedition, but a turret hole allows someone like PeeBee (with an appropriate helmet) to fire her personal weapons at targets. The banter would be cool.

I wouldn't mind the Gun back myself, but everything else about the Nomad is 100% superior to the Mako. Just my opinion of course.

Ok then stay away from Need For Speed.

Oh that cheat made the Mako jump off the map lol. It made me die so much lol.