Before my current car I'd always owned manuals and had always said I preferred them as I liked to be completely in control of changing gear. But my current car is an Auto and while it did take a week or so to fully get used to having no clutch and not needing to change gear when coming to a stop, I now would say I prefer driving an automatic. My 407 has a Porsche 6 speed auto box too so it's quite smooth and fast changing. Although as with all autos it does sometimes get a bit confused and hesitates or changes down a gear when it doesn't need to, but I love kick down as although on paper it is slower than a manual from 0-62, because you don't have to change gear the human element is removed so in practice it is faster.