Brent ..Having owned quite a few automatic Cars I Must say That I Am Definately 100% not interested in Driving in Manual Mode....In fact have never even tried It...I Much prefer to let the car do all the work....Your a much safer Driver I Think when you have both hands on the wheel and don,t have to keep changing Gears Or Paddling about... Majority of More Mature Drivers would Rather have Automatic cars i Think...Just love mine...!!! Who Wants to break in to a sweat changing Gears..!!!