The perfect match of engine and manual gearbox

[irfan1712]

Burning away hours of classified trawling as usual, i stumbled on a couple of V8 and V10 R8 which dont seem to be particularly rare cars.

i started to jog in my mind what cars were seen as great, involving, entertaining, engaging (Etc) because they were opted with a manual box as opposed to the many variations of flappy paddles that they could have been bought with.. or some that just came with a manual only.

I tried thinking of the most charismatic engine that had a manual box, and off the top of my mind:

E60 M5 (North America) - howling v10 in a 5 series with a manual must have been epic

V8 & V10 R8

B7 RS4

All variants of 911 GT3s

997 GT2

McLaren F1

Various 80's and 90's Ferrar's with the gated manual

what cars spring to mind for you that have the perfect match of engine & manual box?