I haven't voted on this because I don't have a car at present. I belong to a generation that learned on manuals as a matter of course; and while I've quite enjoyed driving big or powerful cars with automatics, in my experience they aren't a good idea on small European-size cars, as you seem to get jerky changes (I first noticed this when being given a lift in an automatic Austin 1100). An exception to this might be the DAF-derived CVT system now used (I think) on small Fords, but I've never driven or been driven in one.