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Originally Posted by re-animator
are you sure about that? its not easy to learn manual these days since there are fewer manual cars on the road and fewer people willing to teach you because they don't want to burn up their clutch or wreck their synchros, etc. nobody in my close friends or family had an available manual car so I had to pay a driving school to learn manual. sure on an enthusiast board like this one there are probably a few other people who have a similar story, but its still a big obstacle for people trying to decide if they want the manual. these cars are still pretty new, i don't know if many people are willing to spend $15-30k on a new car to potentially find out they hate driving stick or end up immediately burning their clutch/killing the transmission (realistically i don't think beginners do that much damage as long as they drive responsibly, but that's the perception)
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There are hundred if not thousands on this forum that did exactly that. If they truly WANT MT they will learn it.
MT is not a mystical device that is hard to learn. My great grandmother, grandmother and mother all pretty much drove them exclusively and they were far more difficult ones to drive than now. I taught my 13 year old grandson to drive it in about 20 minutes. He had zero issues learning. To say that people bought ATs because they don't know how to drive MT is probably the last reason not the main. They bought them because they like them or they just don't care.