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In the US, it's often more expensive to get a manual if you are at all picky about options - very few are made, so gearheads end up scouring the entire country
by devilbunny 2y ago
In the US, it's often more expensive to get a manual if you are at all picky about options - very few are made, so gearheads end up scouring the entire country to find a car in the right color, right options package, etc. You might end up with another $2000 in shipping, and the dealers have little incentive to move the cars off the lot (they don't have many if any, and some manual-transmission lover will pay near sticker).
I've driven manual cars but never owned one. Other than transmission fluid changes (rare), though, I've never had to fix an auto transmission. They're pretty reliable. My current one is at about 260k km, 24 years old (previous owner burned out engine and transmission at ~100k km on car by not using towing mode to tow, so car has more on it than that).
- magnetowasright 2y agoI was watching a sort of car review channel and they said 4% of (new) car sales in the US are manual. I was wondering why so few of the amazing sports cars they were reviewing were manual; they just couldn't get their hands on manual versions. There was one astounding model (can't remember) that simply didn't make a manual version at all. It's probably quite silly how shocking I find all of this. I just do not at all understand the point of a so-called sports car (especially the expensive ones!) that's not a manual! What's the point?! I genuinely do not understand why anyone would want an automatic sports car. I don't have to understand; I'm not the arbiter of anything let alone others' enjoyment of cars. I am still confused tho lol