Still like manuals in some cars, as long as it's a decent gearbox.
One of my cars I prefer the manual version, it's more responsive, don't have to have a run up distance to pass someone or try to time the downshift to be in the right gear when you want to pass, just downshift into gear and go.
My other car I wish was an automatic because the manual is just absolute trash. Hates going into any gear, can't feel any gear, clutch is numb as shit, has no power in any gear anyway and when you get on it in 1st it feels like it's trying to blow itself up. When you hit the clutch after gunning it in 1st, the shifter will literally jump out of gear, it's great. Used to have an automatic version for work, it wasn't that bad. The auto started shitting the bed at 170k or so, but I just did a clutch at 100k in mine.
Currently building an auto for my project car. Should be good fun, added a clutch to the forward/direct/intermediate clutch packs, replaced the direct drum to get a 34 element 2nd gear sprag, opened up the feed holes for 2nd/3rd, got rid of one accumulator, put in a manual/automatic valve so I can hold gear to whenever I want (stock turbo 400's will override manual 1st selection at certain RPMs), got rid of all the wave plates, dual fed the direct clutch pack internally, already had the aluminum pistons, replaced the direct piston springs with heavier duty ones, replaced the iron forward hub with a steel one, did the anti thrust thing with the restrictor, new steels/friction/seals, and I have a pretty decent torque converter to go in front of it that should stall around 2500 RPM or so. I'll be amazed if it all actually works when I get it in the car.
