umm well u mentioned it was a pressie from your parents.. just to be different i would say dont sell it because it seems tight to sell something your parents gave you. even though the base model DC5 is not really a car u should even attempt modding especially since its auto.. if you really wanna spend money on it just do a rice airfilter and STOP THERE =P.. no seriosly it wouldent be worth trying to do a auto to manual conversion its troublesome time consuming and well DC5 base isent exactly a good place to start.

if it wasent a pressie i would say sell the car and get something better to work on.

mm audm dc5 and dc5r. well i wont go into that topic as alot of people own audm dc5rs but ,, Whispers quietly.. "it isent the real type R" ^_^..