Actually, I’ve never had an automatic transmission fail, And it would likely be the last thing to fail on a new vehicle... but I have had to replace the clutch at least once on most of the manuals I’ve had, and that can be a several hundred dollar job.
true, but for the price difference you can probably a afford to do that once.
Also a good consideration...
Heh...one of the two cars I’m lookin’ at has a sort of manual automatic transmission. It’s an automatic, but you *can* switch it manually - not a clutch, but with buttons, basically. Inneresting.