My wife isn't into cars at all but fully supports my addiction, affliction, habit or whatever it is that makes me eat, sleep and dream about cars. At any rate she has no desire at all to drive the Z nor my daily driver Subaru since both are stick and she can't drive stick. I bought an automatic for myself when we first got married but she never drove that car so I asked her one day if she minded if I went back to stick so I could enjoy driving again since she didn't ever drive my old car, she said "be happy, drive whatever you'd like." I've offered to teach her to drive stick but she's really not interested.
Did you try FedEx ground? I find DHL to be the best price with so-so results, UPS mid price and worst results and FedEx to be mid pack price and best results.