Dealers only want to sell automatics, since they are in it for the money. they could care less about "fun to drive" and anything like that.

:p They want to sell to naive off the street buyers who can't drive a stick if their life depended on it.

OTOH:
If a dealer has an SVT for sale, they will bend ove backwards to say "it's the top of the line" and "it has better resale than the regular contours"

2000 SE fleet, V6, ATX, ABS, no spoiler, T-Green/tan. Built 01/2000 in MO.
Added 12 spoke factory SE rims, K&N. Biggest mod: ESP Plan!