Call me "old-fashioned" but one of the reasons I bought an Aero-SS was the manual gearbox option. Very few supercar manufacturers if any(?), these days have models with the traditional manual gearbox as an option.
No issues with mine, despite a few comments about why I didn't go for auto, from the factory including Charles :-)
I guess for me personally there's something about giving up part of the involvement of driving a sports car without the clutch and a gate gearbox.
Yes perhaps a bit tricky on long distance on resting the left foot, but a small price to pay....