As long as your happy with the juggling of the pedals/handbrake on the manual models then it isn't a problem. Is a bit quicker and better on fuel than an auto too!
Six months in and our is manual fine. It still annoys because a normal handbrake is simply better, however my wife hates autos and you soon get used to the sequence needed. The rest of the car has been an epic improvement on a LR Discovery 3.
Unfortunately the car was sold last week - £13k which seems like a stonking deal, guy was offered £11k on a trade in so asked his mechanic to ask about. I was too late!
As long as your happy with the juggling of the pedals/handbrake on the manual models then it isn't a problem. Is a bit quicker and better on fuel than an auto too!
Well said we service/repair 5 manuals they are not very popular