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(47,245 posts) Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:33 AM Apr 2015

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Just saw an article in a local shopper's weekly, about manual transmissions. [View all]

Namely, few cars nowadays have them, or have them available.

Personally, I never liked manual.

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Just saw an article in a local shopper's weekly, about manual transmissions. [View all] Archae Apr 2015 OP

there used to be a MPG advantage to a stick but that is no longer the case. corkhead Apr 2015 #1

Ford quit putting them in all trucks back in 2013. n/t oneshooter Apr 2015 #3

Ferrari doesn't make a manual anymore either snooper2 Apr 2015 #20

Some of us can't even operate a manual. n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2015 #2

and too many can't even read one. n/t TheCowsCameHome Apr 2015 #12

ROFLMAO snooper2 Apr 2015 #21

I love to work a manual transmission on an open, curvy road Auggie Apr 2015 #4

My wife has always had a manual tranny titaniumsalute Apr 2015 #5

Love manual transmissions. Several of our cars have them. Brickbat Apr 2015 #6

I drove manual transmission cars until I was sufrommich Apr 2015 #7

It's a US thing to drive automatics tammywammy Apr 2015 #8

not in Europe Locrian Apr 2015 #9

They never go bad. An automatic eventually Ron Green Apr 2015 #10

Is that the printed thingy in the glove box... TheCowsCameHome Apr 2015 #11

I haven't owned an automatic trans in 25 years Galileo126 Apr 2015 #13

FOUR ON THE FLOOR!!!! Hepburn Apr 2015 #14

Good and bad pipi_k Apr 2015 #15

Caveat: In America Xithras Apr 2015 #16

The scarcity of automatic transmissionsin the UK is a plot point in JK Rowling's latest Retrograde Apr 2015 #17

She hadn't been doing it long. Xithras Apr 2015 #19

My car has a manual transmission as well as a manual top and even manual windows Fumesucker Apr 2015 #18

I have that one in black! 110k and 16 years old, it's awesome! bettyellen Apr 2015 #23

I love manual, forced you to be an engaged and playful driver bettyellen Apr 2015 #22

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