Definitely Manual.















I had a 97 manual and it had adequate performance and acceleration.















Once it had to stay in the shop overnight and they gave me a automatic Integra as a loaner. It was terrible, no power, sluggish, I couldn't wait to get my car back.















Now the vtec in automatic would probably be ok but there's not too many of those around.















Regular Integra had appx 140 hp where the vtec had apprx. 190 hp.