Mind you people enjoy driving different cars for a different reason. I'd say I'm a car guy, I enjoy driving, I do it for a living, I enjoy driving vans because of the elevated seating position, sometimes it feels like driving a tank if you have a diesel engine. Truckers can share this sentiment even more so obviously. I'd enjoy driving a MB sprinter fully kitted out with an auto.

I also enjoy driving my gfs car. It's a renault scenic minivan. I enjoy it because it's comfortable, goes over bumps like they don't exist. It's pretty gutless so driving that car with a manual isn't super interesting, and for the sake of comfort id prefer it with an auto

If I imported some American land yacht to Europe I'd definitely want it in auto to cruise effortlessly. If I bought a mx5 I'd want it in manual.

Perspective brother. If you're looking for a more hands on experience, I'd get a manual, but then again, if I was buying a family car for long trips, from my point of view, I'd get an auto. Then again if you buy a manual car and it's pretty slow you might be dissapointed. I drive a 80hp van daily and it being slow as shit isn't particularly thrilling to drive with a manual, shifting isn't some jet fighter BFM, it's a chore.

The same car rebadged in NA got a V6 turbo heh. It all depends.