Given the age demographic of this forum a large percentage of experienced manual drives is no surprise
. My troopie is manual and I wouldn't want a automatic 4WD. I know the new decent assist and traction control is supposed to work (and I've seen videos of it working) but I wouldn't feel comfortable.
Thinking about this reminds me of the following little anecdote. I last drove a 3 on the tree in 1985, yet just a few (maybe 5) years ago I backed out of my drive, stopped to drive forward and my left hand moved as if I was shifting a 3 on the tree from reverse to first - I hit the wiper stalk. I don't where that came from, I hadn't been thinking about old cars.