Thats a joke right?
Sounds like my mate. Moaned about my tiptronic Zed not being a REAL sports car and then he went and bought the 140bhp celica
Ive had both tiptronic and manual Zeds.
The auto is brilliant if you live in a town somewhere and often get caught in traffic as I find clutch is quite heavy on the manual Zeds so is just more comfortable. The auto still goes really well on the odd days you want to give it some.
The manual is great if you dont live in an area of heavy traffic and arent always on the clutch, manual gives more feel to the car.
I'd say the manual feels a little quicker too but its easy to miss gear changes as the gearbox is quite stiff (in a good way, sort of)
(sorry if this post made no sense - im still half asleep)