STICK!!! I never had a stick until I got my stang, and I'll never have another automatic now. They are just too much fun. If you get an AOD, you'll be kicking yourself in the arse everytime you get beat by a stick. Besides, how many peoplewith automatics, in a street legal car, do you know who can cruise at say 60 and drop it into 3rd and get sideways. That in itself makes a stick worth having.