I have a skoda octavia 162kw RS 6 speed manual.
It is amazling comfortable and practical easily fitting in lots of luggage and apart from the pronunciation of street names in the navigation system has a lot of electronics that work really well.
The active cruise control system works perfectly with the manual transmission and i can change up and down gears while it is active and the traffic in front is slowing down or speeding up.
We also averaged 5.5l/100km on a recent trip (52mpg).
What wows me is that a car can be so comfortable, practical, economical, fast, and fun to drive with the manual transmission.
I guess it shows that a car can have a lot of technology and have it work with the gearbox that i want when every other manufacturer tries to tell me i want an auto.