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Originally Posted by Moflow
As someone else pointed out, the M2 has a take rate of around 50 percent with the manual.
and yet, go browse the classifieds....the HUUUUGE majority of new M2's for sale are DCT equipped. That means that not only are HALF of buyers getting the manual, they're also willing to sit around for months while their car is built specifically so they can have that transmission.
There are a ton of people who are 'settling' for an automatic out there. And car companies are actively encouraging this. Why in the name of god would a manufacturer want to engineer a car for 2 transmissions when they can do so for just one? If they can convince the buying public that it's what WE actually wanted, all the better.
Anyway, should be interesting when this all comes back around with self driving cars that can't be driven manually. I bet we have pretty much the same arguments in like 30 years.
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But they do engineer it for 2 transmissions. In Yurp, you have endorsements on your license that allow you to drive manual, automatic, or both. They just don't bring both versions to the US because it doesn't make economic sense to do so. A car that sits on the lot for a year vs. one that sells in a month. It's the take-rates over the last 20 years that have brought us to this point.
And lots of people shopping the high-end market want their cake and want to eat it too. They want something that can hang with the best sports-cars, yet cruise in traffic with minimal input. Or they want SUVs for driving around in the cities. Either way, manual transmission isn't on the list of requested options.