Mazda MX-5
LOL, we lied. Sure, the MX-5 came with an available automatic, but we’ll make just one exception so we can mention something important: the MX-5 has what’s very arguably the best manual transmission feel of any car in the universe, ever. Designed after hundreds of hours of studying how people shift gears, the carefully honed shifter placement, lever, mechanism and even knob were all fine-tuned to feel perfect. Seems to have worked.