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> In the U.S. today, less than 2% of new cars sold are manual now. Automatic gearboxes are well beyond the norm already. At that percentage, the U.S. is a huge
by dave7 8y ago
> In the U.S. today, less than 2% of new cars sold are manual now. Automatic gearboxes are well beyond the norm already.
At that percentage, the U.S. is a huge outlier however, and accounts for quite some chunk of of worldwide automatic gearbox equipped vehicle production on it's own.
The automatic gearbox remains the less popular option worldwide [1], though as you can see they are more popular than they were before.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/204123/transmission-type-market-share-in-automobile-production-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/204123/transmission-type...
- oblio 8y agoThe real reason that's the case is because most of the rest of the world is much poorer than the US. Also many the people in those other countries don't have to drive as much or as far as people in the US. At some point it's just Stockholm syndrome (we can only afford manual, everyone has it, so let's at least pretend it's cool!).
- pjmlp 8y agoIndeed, if I could afford semi-automatic gearbox for the same price as manual, including the regular servicing, I would certainly use it. After all, as GC fan, it does not make much sense to malloc()/free() my gearbox. :)