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Dadhawk · 05-22-2019, 03:42 PM

I posted this on the "only 20% of BRZs are autos" thread but it applies here too:

Not sure what this proves though. 99% of the 86s (any flavor) were "spec" cars. In other words, buyers didn't order them that way, they bought what was on the lot.

Likely what happens is Subaru had fewer units, and they were stick. If that's what the buyer wanted, or could live with it, they bought it, or went over to Toyota and bought the AT. It's the reverse on the Toyota side.

More of them were AT. The buyer either accepted, searched for a Toyota MT, or went to Subaru and bought an MT because they had them.

In both cases, the transmission is not driving total sales numbers. Toybaru built what they wanted to build and people bought them as they were built. It would be different if the cars were built to order, then you would know the "real truth" about preferences.

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