Ferrari F430
Reference — shown, never scored
Why 6.6: A cambelt-service filter and real production volume kept this humane by Ferrari standards, and it quietly closed a door nobody flagged at the time: the last mid-engine V8 Ferrari sold with a clutch pedal, before the 458 went DCT-only. The manual commands a real premium now; the F1 cars that made up nearly the whole run still work for a living.
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · $175k (2005) → $120k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
The long version
Ferrari never marketed the manual gearbox as a going-away present, but that is what it turned out to be: the 458 that replaced this car in 2009 never offered three pedals again, making the F430's option-sheet checkbox retroactively historic. Most buyers ticked the F1 automated manual anyway, chasing lap-time bragging rights over engagement, which is why the gated cars command such a steep premium today. The F1 fleet, cheaper and more plentiful, still does the everyday miles the manual cars increasingly don't.