This guy I used to drink beer with on occasion took a Jeep Cherokee and turned it from an automatic to a manual and we would pile in and go muddin on the trails...
I would always volunteer to sit in the back with the girls and the beer...
But yeah, manuals more fun if its just a weekend car/street race car but for everyday automatics the way to go... its sad supercars are all going auto... who buys those and drives them everyday? I think they would get boring doing that all the time...

... wait take that back.