Honestly, I don't know. A manual would be neat and all. But I'm serious about that traffic stuff. Just driving my dad's Contour (manual) to drop my siblings off at school was a real pain in the butt 'cause of all the traffic going the same way. Sure the Contour isn't as plush as the SVX, but that isn't my point. It's that I was always "1st-clutch-gas-clutch-coast-brake-1st-clutch-gas..." and that got really annoying after a little while.