NZ, have to give ya some background on this manual thingy.
Ya know we Finnish are quite famous of our rally driving and all kinda "curve" driving skills
.. that thing comes right from the mother's milk ya know!!! We have these perfect dricing conditions in Finland for that... sandy roads, winter driving and everything in between.
Most of our cars here are manual.. well the new ones usually have these sequential shifters. But most of the people have used to drive with manual cars. And another reason for that is that we don't quite have "LA-style" traffic here
What most youngsters are doing, what I did as well, was that during winter time it is very usual thing to go driving and racing on ice somewhere in lakes/sea (when the ice is thick enough). That'll teach you how to handle the car in icy/slip conditions even in very high speeds. And yeah, it's nothing but pedal to the metal style driving
well that thing continues in snowy roads, and summer sandy roads... BUT you gonna neet to have RWD, so this new era is killing that heritage. Now in order to get that skill ya need to go track racing with somebodys race car, not ya own car
So mother's milk, mother's milk was that thing behind our stick
