Yeah I'd agree with this. Smaller more windy roads, maybe need more control. I think a lot of it does have to do with historically bad automatics as well, and

Yeah I'd agree with this. Smaller more windy roads, maybe need more control. I think a lot of it does have to do with historically bad automatics as well, and the fact that doing your test in an automatic locks you into driving them forever. Regarding hills, I normally drive with cruise control on so if I'm going 50mph, the car will automatically downshift to maintain that speed. You'd be surprised how many people slow down by default when going up hill because they don't try to maintain the speed and you end up zipping past.