[David70]

There used to be many functional reasons to buy the manual over the automatic but they have all been reduced to the point they don't matter or eliminated. Pluses on the manual side now include "joy" and "connected to the car". As time goes on there will be fewer manual cars offered to the point that they will be eliminated. Next problem is fewer and fewer young people have ever had a chance to drive a manual. If you don't know how to use something you are far less likely to spend tens of thousands of dollars to give it a try, especially when it doesn't do anything measurably better.

I am also on the daily automatic, weekend manual car program but I will never buy a new weekend car so I am not helping the situation. Good news for me is I can drive the rest of my life on weekend manuals already produced, I don't need new cars to supply what I want.