If this car sells more automatics than manuals in America, then I will shed a tear for the manual transmission. It's dying, folks, and nobody seems to give a damn or want to save it. Please, buy this car with a manual like 100% of buyers overseas will be doing. It's lighter, faster, easier to service, and more involving. If you buy an auto, you might as well buy a regular appliance car because you'll get the same enjoyment out of that. Or could people really just be so lazy? Or really young and consider the stickshift to be an old dinosaur thing or never had a chance to learn? I'm not a total hater. My daily Dodge Shadow is a 3AT. Because it's a DODGE SHADOW. You really want to be the owner of an automatic Toyota 86? Really? Well, fine, but...ugh. Something about that just screams WRONG.
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