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Manual cars in 2024

Some of the take rates were pretty surprising.to me, the WRX and BRZ in particular. I imagine for most cars listed they will eventually skip manual on the next generation (Miata, Mustang, WRX/BRZ, Porsche + BMW excepted)
 
Prob gonna be awhile before I can afford a Pagani Utopia 🙄

I'm down to a single manual car myself, against my will I might add. Bought a '17 Lexus IS for myself and the miss, since her CR-V is getting old. It's.... fine, but paddle shift and no clutch hurt my soul. No CVT though, I would not budge on that. I'm only willing to bend so much.
 
The take rate on the M4 is surprisingly low.

Do paddle shifters, common on compact sport sedans, count as manual cars?
 
I love driving my manual car but don’t think even I would buy a new one. Mostly because I prefer classics for a fun car and appliances for a regular car — taking my wife’s CX-5 to the store or on road trips or into the city is just less stressful. I did buy a new Miata in early 2021 but only lasted a year with it because I had too many cars and hate eating depreciation.
 
I'm in the same boat, my fun car is a manual and my dailies will always be auto.

Listening to a loud V8 rowing through 6 gears with a stiff clutch and RWD is all fun and games until you are sitting in stop and go traffic with a sore left leg and the sun beating down through the T-tops.
 
I hate manuals anymore. People's driving, which already sucked, has completely gone to shit. They can't maintain speed, they do the perpetual creep at lights, and then there's the routine hassle of being backed up in traffic cause some asshat was watching his phone instead of the road, and fucked up everybody's day.

There was a time I would have, and did pay a premium for a manual transmission. You'd have to offer me a nice discount to take one today.
 
When I was looking for an old truck I wanted one with a manual transmission. Seems wrong to be driving a real old truck with an automatic. I ended up with a 1941 Ford with a manual. I drive it only to Home Depot, Costco and the nursery. Well and the occasional joy ride.

Now our daily drivers are automatics. In fact both are 8 speeds so I don’t even feel them shift.
 
Manual transmission save lives, If I lose control of the car on ice roads, I switch to lower gear (2) and the car STOPs or slow down.
 
Stopsignhank said:
When I was looking for an old truck I wanted one with a manual transmission. Seems wrong to be driving a real old truck with an automatic. I ended up with a 1941 Ford with a manual. I drive it only to Home Depot, Costco and the nursery. Well and the occasional joy ride.

Now our daily drivers are automatics. In fact both are 8 speeds so I don’t even feel them shift.
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When I first test-drove the Ecoboost Mustang, they only had the 10-speed, which was awful. Felt liked riving a tractor lol. So much noise & shifting. Drove the newer Ford 10-speed recently and it's night & day...quiet, you don't feel the shifts, doesn't do that split-second lag when you need power & it has to decide where to go, etc.
 
Went to my local Costco to buy something and they were out. They had it at a different Costco that is about 20 miles away and a drive through a city. My thoughts when I was driving there was not what is the quickest route. It was what route has the least stop lights and stop signs.
 
I have two manual transmissions, both are diesels. The truck does serious jobs for me.
It hauled every stick of lumber, sheet of osb, subfloor, joist, small dog, everything for the new house. I could not imagine working an auto truck with 300,000 miles that hard.
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