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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
I don’t know how different the right hand drive and left hand drive parts would be, but they sell more manuals in other markets, so it could be just a matter of making it work on a US assembly line or passing US crash tests with the manual.
Also they improved the manual too, going to a six speed and other associated modifications. The XT is already the performance engine for the Forester, so why not just throw a manual in there too?
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To put it simply: not enough people would buy one to cover the cost of making the parts and tooling the line to build them.