Yea, a lot of it is that I"m just sentimental for the old stuff. But there are some objective advantages to the manual transmission. For one, they"re a lot cheaper. That is, they would be if anyone could be bothered to learn to drive them so they could be made in sufficient volume to keep tooling costs reasonable.
As for being secure enough to let the transmission do the shifting for me, I suppose there"s some truth to what you say, but there"s more to it. To some degree, at least some of the time, I enjoy driving, but the automatic is boring. And I actually don"t happen to like the way automatics pick gears. I recognize they are right and I am wrong, but I still prefer my way.
At the end of the day, I realize most people want an auto, and I don"t begrudge them that, but I hate losing the option to do it my way.
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