I went 20+ years without driving a manual. Took a little time for me to get back in it.
I test drove both an auto and a manual. I personally liked both.

I ordered the manual because:

1) I do a lot of highway driving = manual
2) I drove an automatic for the last 20 years = manual
3) Smoky burn-outs = manual :-D

Though the last one can be done on an automatic, it's a little tougher on the tranny.
Plus, with the manual, you save around $1,000. :nice:

Automatic does make things easier, especially if you're doing stop and go traffic on a regular basis.

In the end, get what makes sense to you and makes you happy.

I got the auto because the wife said no auto, no mustang so auto it was. I love the auto in the traffic around here(Atlanta) but if traffic isn't an issue for you, go manual. This is a fantastic auto though so get what will make you happy. Nobody who has driven my car has made a negative comment about the auto, even if they had ribbed me about it before.

Jason

IMO people that do all these thing are going to do them no matter what. Driving a stick just adds one more item for them to fiddle with.

NO, you can hold the brake and spin the tires but no chirp into 2 or 3rd.

You could melt the tires off if you care to, very easy to do great burnouts with auto.

The auto is fun to drive, don't let anyone try to shame you into buying a car you don't like. If you already like to drive manual you won't be dissapointed buying the 5 speed, if you don't like driving stick, you wont like it in this car either so go with the auto.

Mine Auto chirps going into second. And what's really fun is when you are coming up to a red light and you know it is about to turn green (b/c you go through this intersection twice a day) and your doing about 20 - then you punch it (t/c off) much more than a chirp, your spinning back there! :) Of course, this is only when there are no other cars at the intersection that may run the orange light (combo of red and yellow) :)

Manual...'cause there are other times when you aren't in traffic.

I wanted the manual - husband wanted automatic. Since it's my car we got the manual and I've no regrets!

manual for all the reasons already posted, plus only one person said it, but I'll reinforce it, 'its better, and its cheaper'!

Me, I went with the auto because of traffic and a ruptured disk that sometimes makes me want to cut off my left leg with a rusty spoon. B) No complaints with the auto. How could you not have fun driving this car?

If you are on the fence on this decision I would say go with the manual. It is a lot of fun and it's a thousand bucks that stays in your pocket.

If it makes any difference, I MANUALLY put my AUTOMATIC into drive several times a day :)

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Jeff, my advice is that you drive both before you make up your mind based on forum comments. You'll probably get the MT because you save $1000 and you live in a lightly populated area. I drove both and they were both nice. Equally fast up to about 90 where the MT edges the AT only a little. Make sure you do drive both. :nice:

Manual is fun for 15 minutes, then its work. Get the Auto and enjoy the drive.

If you're wishy-washy from the get go, get the auto.

But if you're the kind of person who knows what they want, you know what to get.

That was smart way of looking at it TacoBill, I will have to apply that to some other things. It's like the K.I.S.S. idea.

MAN.......ual get it :jester:

Just buy both and be done with it.
You can't go wrong :-D

Manual !!

How much fun is it to just point and steer? Get an automatic when you're ready to move into the retirement home.

It had been 9 years since i'd driven a manual. When I first got my GT, I began to second guess my dicision to go with the manual. After a couple of weeks, my only regret with the manual is that my wife can't drive it.