Automatic because manual's are a pain and I always imagine me having some serious issue and not being able to drive myself to a place and someone being "wtf I cant drive a manual!"
Some very nice cars here ... I don't own a car right now (don't need it, partly thanks to an invention called 'Greenwheels') ... but the only car I've owned was a red Alfa Romeo 155 1.8 Twin Spark, from 1995. It was a sweet, sweet ride, with beautiful handling. God I loved that car.
Oh yeah, manual goes without saying here. The only automatic I've ever driven is the Prius (the nice looking one) that I took for a test-drive a few weeks after I got my licence. (yes, I only got my licence at 30 ... this country is very public transport minded and I have a brompton ... )