the reason everyone is so anti-automatic on this board is because Honda's auto's aren't the greatest thing ever... Especially compared to their standard tranny's...

Read just about any auto mag (ie, car & driver, motortrend), and every comment they'll say about honda's 5-speed is that they are to par with BMW. Shifter feel, feed back, throws, balance, etc.

Most people with higher milage honda auto's have to have them rebuilt. They're not quite the same...