Jeff Clabaugh). WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans own a car with a manual transmission, let alone know how to operate one, than just
Everything up to mid-size, sports, performance cars, off-roaders - was the manual's realm. In the United States, the automatic revolution began in the 1950s (and I offer everyone to read this excellent article on how it happened Hydra-Matic History: GM's First Automatic Transmission - Ate Up With Motor). The American car

28 Apr 2015 The consummate car guy's secret anti-theft device is alive and kicking, and not only in performance cars and budget-friendly economy vehicles. What follows is every vehicle you can buy with a manual transmission in the United States. This list will be updated periodically to reflect the births and deaths of
7 Apr 2016 At last count, just 3.9 percent of cars sold in U.S. were built with manual transmissions, but in the rest of the world, manual transmissions are still overwhelmingly the top choice. In Europe and Japan, for example, more than 80 percent of cars sold have manual transmissions.
There are still a significant proportion of people in the US who enjoy driving, but I think what often happens is they get married to someone who doesn't have the same enjoyment of driving and therefore doesn't drive a manual transmission, and thus the couple only purchases automatic cars so that both of them can drive it.
27 Sep 2016 The latest figures show only about five percent of cars are sold with a stick shift. The numbers peaked at about 25 and 30 percent of production in 1987 for cars and 1990 for trucks, according to EPA statistics. They've seen a steady decline since. Now manual transmissions are relegated mostly to sports
15 Nov 2016 Edmunds senior analyst Ivan Drury said fewer than 3% of current U.S. car sales are manual vehicles — compared with 80% in some European and Asian . Subaru said stick shift percentages can go as high as 50% on a BRZ, WRX and STI performance car, but as low as 10% on the more sedate Forester,
12 Oct 2016 The report from U.S. News and World Report show only 18 percent of U.S. drivers know how to operate a stick shift. It says that because of advancements in automatic transmissions and fuel economy, only about 5 percent of vehicles sold in the U.S. today come with a stick shift.
11 Oct 2016 The report from U.S. News and World Report show only 18 percent of U.S. drivers know how to operate a stick shift. It says that because of advancements in automatic transmissions and fuel economy, only about 5 percent of vehicles sold in the U.S. today come with a stick shift. That's down from 25 percent

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