Yep, went with a stick shift. It's my first car with a manual transmission, but with my experience on a motorcycle, I worked it out quickly. When I went to move my Saturn the other day, I was trying to find the clutch pedal on the floor, until I remembered it was an automatic.

As for the dash, yes, it has both preset colors and then 1-5 values for R, G and B for quite a few combinations.