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Why wouldn't automobile companies build more if people were willing to buy them? Is there some sort of environmental, safety, or other regulation pushing manuf

• svpk 1y ago
  You can get people who want a manual to compromise on buying an automatic, but the opposite is rarely true. So economies of scales dictates that you're better off just making automatics exclusively. This is all the more true since many of the key advantages to manuals (cost, fuel economy, reliability) have been greatly reduced by technology improvements. I'm sure its more complicated in practice but I imagine that's the core issue.
• UncleEntity 1y ago
  > Why wouldn't automobile companies build more if people were willing to buy them? They would and I'm sure they produce just as many as they can reliably sell. I always end up with a manual as they are cheaper (presumably) due to less demand. Hell, my current car they strait-up lied that it was an automatic on Carvana and when it showed up I was, like, whatever. Wasn't really worth the effort to go through whatever Kafkaesque dispute resolution system they crafted and I needed a car so now I have one of those elusive 5-speeds.