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Related news: Americans spend considerably more time in traffic as well. (Here's a comparsion from 82 - 92 - 02: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion_report/exec
by mr_tristan 8y ago
Related news: Americans spend considerably more time in traffic as well. (Here's a comparsion from 82 - 92 - 02: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion_report/executive_summary.htm https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion_report/executive_summary...)
I'm not sure there's a significant market for cars in the US where traffic isn't a factor or hasn't grown significantly in the last generation.
Given that automatics are much nicer to drive in traffic, I sense that is a huge reason why there's just not much of a market for manuals. Unless the manual was going to be massively cheaper (and it's not), I can't think of a large group of people who would desire manual transmissions.