The days of autos being less reliable are in the past. The only car within my immediate family that had issues was the brother's 2000 Accord V6. That transmission had issues in the Accord and Odyssey. The car had also been through two floods. For the Sonic/Aveo I had, there were more reported problems with the manual. Design and manufacturing defects don't see a difference.
Maintenance is more for the auto simply because there is more fluid and a filter. It is only needed at 30k, 50k, or 100k miles though.
In the US, we rarely get manuals geared reasonably. The manufacturers think only people looking for performance want one. Our Fit/Jazz would be spinning the engine at a 1000 more rpm at 60mph than the automatic.
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