I drive a transport for aliving. after spending all week in the 
truck I am very happy to be driving my automatic. However if 
I was doing serious offroading whickh I can assure you my
 westy will not do or driving a high performance sports car I 
would want a manual for the control. But for driving down a 
paved road to a park and setting up auto only baby!!!!
 Patrick
85 westy