its the nature of the cable actuated shifter in our mid-engined car. Front engined cars allows the shifter mechanism to be mounted directly to the transmission(in most cases front engined cars have the transmission mounted directly under the center tunnel. In our cars, there is a cable system that connect our shifter to the transmission and there is slack and play in the linkage system. search for LETSLA, its an aftermarket shifter linkage that a member has designed to reduce the play and seems to get good feedback.