S2 RS4V ftw.
It's the first auto car I have purchased and I don't mind it at all. I put a mild shift kit through the auto and that made a huge difference to how it handled/put down the power.
My wagon has a bigass highflow, full exhaust, fmic, Haltech (soon to be NIStune), Tein coilovers, 33gtr swaybars, shimmed up LSD out of my skyline and some slotted rotors up front with greenstuff pads. Also got a carpc running datascan all the time and a programmable CB for the country trips.
Hauls ass, is an hillarious lunchbox and can fit heaps of shit. I love it. The ULTIMATE tourer, I do several several-thousand-km trips a year as well as driving it to work daily and it loves ALL of it.