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Originally Posted by SupraLove
Again, another sellout. It was just to get more customers. It's not like Supras were amazing track cars either... They were drag monsters and dyno queens.
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It's not being a sellout, it's a "necessary evil" or so to speak. In order to produce such amazing cars, cash has to be poured into R&D. To get a return on investment, you have to sell a certain amount of units of said car. So, if the cars weren't available in an automatic transmission the cars wouldn't make up the money spent on R&D, or they would be a LOT more expensive to buy so they can make up more ground selling just manuals. Also, have you checked the proportion of MT/AT sales of our beloved 86? Last I heard (and I can't find it right now) it's proportionally one of the vehicles most sold in MT.