We were in Scotland in September and part of our package was a car. When we went to pick it up they didn’t have anything we could upgrade to so we got the clown car with a manual. Driving on the left side of the road and changing gears with my left hand was fun.....not! We actually turned the car in at Inverness instead of Glasgow and took the train instead. We learned a lesson though. I don’t like driving in other countries. I thought their round a bouts every quarter a mile was gonna get us killed.
You haven’t had real fun until you drive in an Asian country using your left hand to shift. Driving in Bangkok with gridlocked traffic makes you wish for an automatic (either transmission or pistol).
We owned a manual Suzuki Swift which was a good car around town, but when we travel we took the automatic transmission Ford Ranger.