In America only 2% of cars sold new are manual transmission. People have gotten away from them for decades because automatics are "more luxurious". We also don't value driving like other countries since it's a literal necessity to do anything and participate in the economy.
Sorry to upset you.
Wish that was true here too.
I'll take that a step further and say the general populous has become so complacent to driving that it's flat out dangerous to anybody who isn't driving a modern vehicle with 28 airbags and 900 crash prevention sensors to be out on the roads. I honestly believe the majority of people these days can barely distinguish being in their car versus still being on the couch at home. I think there's a bit of truth to the argument that the more tech bs we cram into cars to make them more numb, comfortable, and "safe", the worse the accidents are going to become. Now people don't even have to check their blind spots, a sensor does it for them. You can only build a car so safe - and modern cars are so insulated, comfortable, and numb that people think nothing of doing 100mph on their daily commute because it's barely distinguishable from sitting on the couch at home... until they crash at 100mph and it's total carnage. I'm old enough to remember when the majority of highway accidents were one, maybe two cars that shut down a lane and were pretty beat up. Now highway accidents are all hell breaks loose and they have to shut down the entire highway for hours as they scrape together the bits of 9 cars someone just hit at 100mph. It didn't used to be that way, for the most part.
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Upset? Ha ha. Of course not man. In fact, I'm probably in the minority, not liking driving a gated shifter. Was simply stating my point of view; that's all. But there's no denying they look aesthetically better, and they leave zero doubt there's a manual transmission under them
. I think the Bullitt is the modern interpretation of a gated shifter, with a white cue ball with the 'H pattern' clearly stated, also leaving little doubt it's a manual tranny... but without the clanking, and more satisfying shifting feel .
There's no doubt about what kind of transmission it operates.
Any day...
This is probably true.
