I knew a girl many years ago that owned an MG MGB GT. Not sure what year it was, but every time I rode in that car my entire body vibrated for about 10 minutes after we stopped. Fun never really entered in the experience. Years later my wife and I had a Honda Civic DX 5-speed hatchback and to this day that was one of the best cars we ever owned (before we bought our BMWs). Unfortunately, here in the states we do not require our young drivers to pass their driving tests on both manual and automatic transmissions. Plus, try shopping for a manual transmission car these days. Local Honda dealer had something like 100 Civics in inventory last week, and 99 were automatics. Not sure what automobile inventories look like in Ontario, but the days of the manual transmission are fading fast and have been for many years. In some ways that's too bad.