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In France shift stick are generally cheaper than automatic gear
by rihegher 8y ago
In France shift stick are generally cheaper than automatic gear
- analog31 8y agoSame in US. The transmission in my little car was a line item on the price... automatic was US $600 more. But the car companies barely even make money on small cars, and this particular product line (Toyota Scion) was discontinued. If the market shrinks to the point where something is a specialty item, then the price difference can invert itself, which is what I think happened in the US.
- Finnucane 8y agoIt's still the case here, but for some models it's not an option.
- skywhopper 8y agoMost models these days have no manual option in the US. And when it is an option it’s usually force-paired with the baseline trim or incompatible with a number of feature packages.