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46. I have owned ONE automatic in my life

I was taught how to drive on a 1976 Dodge Pickup with a Manual three speed Transmission "On the tree", shifted to an Automatic a few years later when my Father Purchased a Suburban. Drive Army M35s with Manual Transmissions while in the National Guard (Both Gas and diesel M35s, Pennsylvania National Guard had 40 year old trucks when I was in the Guard in the 1980s). I drove a Ford Bronco II with a Five Speed manual Transmission, then a 1982 Chevrolet Pickup with a Three Speed with Creeper gear, manual Transmission, then a 1987 Renault with a manual five speed. I trade that in for a 1990 Chevrolet Lumina, it is the only automatic I have ever owned. It was destroyed when a truck hit it as it was parked during an Ice Storm and I purchased a 1995 Jeep Wrangler, then a Dodge Dakotas, both with Five Speed transmissions. I am now driving a 2012 Chevrolet Cruze Eco with a Six Speed Manual Transmission.

All of my family, except one sister who refuses to learn, can and have driven Standard Transmissions. We like Standard transmissions but they are getting hard to find, One Japanese car maker sells a Manual Transmission version of their Car in the US that gets less fuel economy then its Automatic version. The reason for that is the Manual Transmission has a lower final drive then the Automatic, for the car makers geared the transmission for users in Asia itself who wanted POWER more than fuel economy, but then decided to sell it is the US and it sells it appears for the same reason (the lower geared final transmission can haul more then the Automatic and the people who opt for the Manual want that extra hauling power).

Just a comment some people in the USA still drive a Standard Transmission, no matter how much we hear of people who hate them.