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Originally Posted by SteveinArizona
One thing I notice in this thread, and others I have seen, is that most of the folks who say how much they love the manuals (and I am sure they do) are driving old cars. That is great BUT that means they are not buying new cars. So if a significant chunk of the enthusiast market is not purchasing new cars, and the segment itself is small, that can explain why car makers are no longer offering manuals -- not enough buyers.
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I'm driving an old car because the new cars don't offer a manual transmission.
(and a non-turbo in-line 6 cylinder engine).
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."