[AKnowles]

For my two cents worth ... a sports car - any sports car - should be a manual transmission. For me the definition of sport is interaction and if you don't feel it then why bother at all. I will admit, that I've been a major rider of motorcycles for years (about 35 years of ownership/riding) and I'd still be doing it if my body could manage it. The interaction of listening to the exhuast noise, the whine of the transmission, the vibration of the motor, and the feel of the ride is what makes the desire to ride so powerful. I get about 80% of that in the boxster.

I'll be honest, I'm not going to buy a PDK model, a tiptronic model, a steptronic (almost did once), or any other variation of an automatic. As someone told me a few weeks ago ... if it doesn't include a left pedal on the floor don't even both to show it to me.

An automatic is an automatic. It's designed to make getting from point A to point B easy and efficient. It's just no d**n fun to drive. It's just transportation.