with technology so advance nowadays, we have manumatics all around us. if i have the money i'd always get the matics.

that's why for our home sedan we got the honda city 1.3 cvt automatic. drives like a charm and does not consume a lot of gas. if only we have the budget would have chosen the matic also for the 4x4 isuzu dmax. but the manual tranny will do for now.