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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
The critical difference between MT demand and EV demand is one is continuing to decrease and one is continuing to increase.
Stating the obvious, when you're in a business where you have to project out what the buying public will want 3 to 5 years in the future, you are going to only focus on one of those.
The lose of sedans (and wagons) totally sucks, but unfortunately if they don't build them, I can't buy them so I have to move on. I think that is a far greater loss than the MT.
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Exactly. Eventually the only sedans offered could be inexpensive, crappy ones that no one wants or really expensive ones that few can afford then the manufacturers will claim there is no demand.
If we used the landscape of available cars as a barometer for what demand exists then we learn that the demand is for FWD crossovers, but luxury owners seem to demand AWD and RWD. Orrrrr, maybe FWD is cheap and better for fuel economy. I think the manual transmission was just a victim of profits. I don’t know if demand ever existed for the manual transmission. It was just cheaper and better for fuel economy and automatics were expensive and worse until they weren’t. All I’m saying is the manual transmission didn’t need to be phased out. It just was because it wasn’t needed.