thank you for your response

I am buying a weekend fun car, so wrangler is the best choice to me.

I am asking these questions is because I prefer manual, but there aren't many on market, almost 90% of wrangler in my area are automatic. I just want to make sure that automatic does hurt offroad abitlity too much.

As for hardtop option, I don't actually mind some road noise since I do not use wrangler on highway much. But
if hardtop do reduce noise much better than soft top,
I would like to order it