> AFAIK the vast majority of vehicles sold in Europe are manual. This was true up until a few years ago, but it's around 50/50 now for passenger cars. There is

> AFAIK the vast majority of vehicles sold in Europe are manual. This was true up until a few years ago, but it's around 50/50 now for passenger cars. There is a definite regional split, with manuals still popular in southern Europe, but having rapidly declining market share in northern Europe. Part of that is that hybrid and electric cars have had more uptake in northern Europe and are almost always automatic (there are a handful of manual hybrids, but they're not common). Automatics as a percentage of new passenger car sales in 2020 for a few European countries [1]: EU27+UK: 50% Sweden: 86% Germany: 61% UK: 56% France: 48% Greece: 34% Spain: 32% Italy: 28% [1] Full table is on p. 57 of this report: https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ICCT-EU-Pocketbook-2021-Web-Dec21.pdf https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ICCT-EU-Pocke...