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Originally Posted by fitftw
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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For the record, I will be buying a manual if I am buying one. There would be no other way. And I will be doing it just for myself. Other people, I do not care. Their choices. Who would I be to tell other people what to drive?? I do not know if you need to be that pesimistic about the future of the manual transmission. In fact, we, who live in the US are in a better shape in that regard than those who live in Japan, for example. I do not have the exact number, but I believe the AT ratio is somewhere between 90% and 95%. People there can choose to get a license that allows ONLY to drive AT cars. Can you believe that?