I have been driving manual transmission cars for the last 50+ years and have never had to replace a clutch. On the other hand, two of our "mommy" cars have had automatic transmission failures at under 60k miles. The major watchwords are "breaks are cheap, clutches are not". A brake job is a couple of hundred, and a clutch job is $1,000 or more Respect the machinery, and it will respect you.

Pete