It's just personal preference -- driving an automatic makes me feel like I'm 
driving a golf cart.
Probably not a good enough reason to spend a thousand bucks and a bunch of 
free time on swapping out the tranny.

On Monday 11 November 2002 01:17, lauterba wrote:
> Why change from the automatic?  It is very robust if you take care of it:
> change the fluid and filter once a year.