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      09-26-2020, 08:34 AM   #71
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Originally Posted by Lucky1 View Post
Manual transmission in new cars in North America and parts of Europe will be relegated to a few cars that inspire the audience for it. Already mentioned on this forum. If/when people stop buying those cars with the option or don't fight back if taken away it will be finished. One by one they will fall; maybe the entire car model itself will just fade (does anyone REALLY want to drive an automatic Miata??).

VW Golf/Jetta/GTI
BMW M2/3/4 - Sad, very sad...
Porsche 718 series
Porsche 911 Carrera/GT3/R
Honda Civic SiR
Subaru WRX STI
Mazda Miata
Lotus ??
Aston Martins (thank goodness)
Alfa Romeo Guilia (Europe only)


All driver focused cars. Will be completely dead in the commuter car market. I know in Brazil they were driving a high take rate of manuals and have some unique commuter cars as a result but curious if that has changed in the past 9 year since I've been.
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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."
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