I'd agree that manuals are overall more fun, but at the same time, a powerful automatic is more fun than a gutless manual. It would be one of the lower features on my priority list. I've got tiptronic on my Volvo, and I agree with what others have said, it's really not worth the effort. It would have been useful on my old car that had a dumb automatic that would occasionally get stuck in the wrong gear (such as when trying to pass while going up an incline). But any car new enough to have tiptronic is also likely to have a very smart automatic that will always be in the best gear, anyway.
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