Heres the deal, ive been wanting an rs for a long time now and ive found one in my area that is affordable with decent miles. Its basicly everything i want BUT its an automatic... i plan on doing a jdm wrx swap WAYYY down the road (when the stock rs motor goes out)

im still not sure if i want to put up with another automatic and its also going to make things more difficult when i swap right?

Basically i am asking any rs owner with an auto

Was the car at all dissapointing considering it was automatic over manual or do you still have fun and do you still love it just as much?

thanks to anyone who drops their opinion.

(oh and another question ive heard about the wheel bearing issues in the backend and i am doing a search at the moment on them but is there any way to see or feel that they are going out?)