Fully automatic (apart from manually moving the gear lever into D from P!). A superb box in congested traffic and generally. It's not infallible but it rarely makes a mistake on gear choice and it maintains excellent fuel economy. The sport option I find useful for joining motorways on short slip roads to get max acceleration, but otherwise I don't use it much, and I never use the manual paddle shift - presumably why the box might be described as semi auto. In both cases there really is little point. As my son says, when it's this good, why do cars still have manual gears and clutches?