Originally Posted by Princess_Jen

Reasons MT is better:

If all you want to do is point at the car and say "go", then you don't want a manual.

Fuel economy: going with a manual transmission is probably going to be your best bet if you know how to drive it.

Maintenance/Repair costs:
Even though the automotive world has come extremely far with refining automatic transmissions, most automatic transmissions still need to be serviced far more often than manual transmissions (some auto manufacturers state that their manual transmissions never have to be serviced with fluid changes, etc. )

The acceleration offered from a vehicle when equipped with a manual transmission is usually superior for a number of reasons; most predominantly due to gear ratios and the availability for more precise shifting. To explain, if you own a car that receives 200 horsepower @ 7,000 RPM, but your automatic transmission will up-shift under full throttle at only 6,000 RPM, you probably will never feel the full amount of power that your engine was made to offer. So, your engine may be stamped with a 200 horsepower rating, but because your car is equipped with an automatic that up-shifts too soon, you may be missing up to 20% of available power. On the other side, with most manual transmissions, you can usually take the engine revs to redline (or past). This enables you to get the most power possible to the front, rear, or all 4 wheels under full throttle take-offs.

Friends/loved ones will be less likely to borrow your car, because they're not able to operate it, which brings further incidental savings.

While most cars do not have this large of a 0-60 MPH gap between auto and manual transmissions, 99 percent of the time you will receive noticeably better performance from a manual gearbox.

Automatic transmission can't anticipate what you're going to do next. Manual transmission you have control over what your car is doing.
A manual transmission permits you to control torque independently of acceleration, which is an essential ingredient to driving control.

THE FUN

Other MT vs AT arguments summary lol. But yea.. MT will always be a better choice when buying a SPORTS car. If your modding and trying to feel power then its obvious.