At least your one of those people that are smart enough to get a manual transmission. I had a friend who's dad bought an auto '91 BMW (forgot which model) that fucked up a year later. He had to spend a shit load of money on getting the transmission replaced. But then this transmission problem could be the fault of the previous owner not driving it correctly.
That's usually the problem with transmissions
I think I broke one in driving school car the first time I sat in that wore down car, it was a horrible car, I am amazed how people who do not know how to drive could learn to drive with that darn thing. And I still don't get how to drive with the automatic transmission, you can't make all these fast starts (when you let the car run in lower gear that is needed at that amount of rev, something like that, dunno how its called correctly) and so on....
I have driven a automatic transmission cars few times and I felt like granny..... Then again I drive only at these times when I am the one less drunk, I hate driving a car, I prefer to be passenger
Oh, and I also dislike BMW, but that's just because here all "new russians" have one and all acts like a bitches. A really horrible crowd of people, acting like idiots and thugs while listening to some crappy russian pop and spitting sunflower seeds around while sitting on the hood the BMW no matter how crappy the one it drives >_<
