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They just really don't sell many manual transmission cars in Canada so I've had scant experience with them. I did drive one a little bit for work but I wasn't used to it and would stall out on hills.
They do seem like they would be fun to drive. Sometimes my automatic will just rev on pointlessly high gears and I'm like, downshift you bastard
I grew up in manual-land and was in the US for a little title road trip from Denver to LA a while ago. Rented a cheap car, got a Kia Rio. When I started crossing the Rockies, the car would never really know what to do with the automatic transmission and keep shifting back and forth on the long inclines.
My luck was, it was a semi-auto if you wanted to. You could nudge the selector to the left and have a bit of a sequential shifter thing, just without a clutch pedal. I thought that was a neat compromise and gotta say I enjoyed my 10 days in that car.
Always find the first thing to do with poverty-spec cars is to turn the eco mode off, means that you don't get the five seconds of pucker before the transmission kicks down