So it seems like every year that passes by fewer and fewer cars are being made with manual transmissions today
I'll be explaining why stick shift cars are dying off here in the United States
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Let's begin the first reason is barrier of entry you're gonna need someone willing to teach you how to drive a stick
But let's be honest most people here in the u.s.
Drive an automatic car you take that already small percentage and cut it down to people you know cut it down further to the people
That will actually take the time to teach you
What are you left with not that many options then add that you'll need a manual car to learn it you have two options either
You buy a stick card to learn in or you use someone else's car and I'll tell you from personal
Experience no one likes teaching a newbie how to drive stick and their own personal cart due to the obvious
Increased wear and tear one mistake and there goes half of your clutches life
Then there is the actual
Learning process sure it may not be too bad learning to drive stick in a open parking lot or a big isolated area
but what happens once you get on the road to practice you know with actual drivers traffic obstacles and
Pedestrians around the Ivan's thinking the open road can be terrifying for beginners even more terrifying for those that live in a crowded urban
Environment arguably the hardest thing to learn is taking off from a complete stop
Especially on a hill sure it's much easier to do that when no one is wrong, but in traffic
That's a whole different game
The pressure of bumper-to-bumper traffic other drivers honkin in the fear of hitting another car
Can be rough and something most people just rather not deal with it's much easier to avoid all those steps and just drive an automatic
Second reason manual transmission cars are dying is because US Americans. Just aren't buying them
They are doing just fine in other parts of the world, but in the u.s.
It's just not the case back in 2006 47 % of new vehicle models offered in the u.s.
Were available in both automatic and manual transmissions according to a study made by IDI Montcalm in 2011 that number dropped to 37% and in
2016 that number got slashed down to 27 percent. I know what you're thinking well 27 percent isn't that low?
In 2016 less than 4% of car sales were cars with a manual gearbox
Now compare that to some European and Asian countries where their sales for manual car as high as 80%
The sad thing is that in the US that percentage is not going up
It's heading for zero less unless car manufacturers are offering the option to equipped a manual
But can you blame them after all it's just business
Many car manufacturers offer a few amount of manual transmission cars on their cheaper low-end models for reasons you might not know since manual
Transmissions weigh less and are cheaper to produce
car
Manufactures can price these vehicles low enough to entice customers into the dealership that doesn't mean they sell in great numbers though a car manufacturer
Or dealer can simply use the lower price point solely for ads to get you to come in and once you're there
They use many of their sales tactics to get you to purchase a more expensive
Automatic model Marketing at its finest some automakers want to appeal to the real enthusiasts
But when sales for manual transmission cars below 4 percent it makes that tough third reason is efficiency
Many of the pros of owning a manual are no longer a factor things like cheaper sticker price better performance and better gas mileage
It's not what they used to be automatic transmissions have come a long way
They were once less efficient than a manual car and much more expensive, too
Nowadays many automatic vehicles here in the US are more fuel efficient and much quicker to then add the recent addition to the quicker shift
in dual clutch transmission
Which many performance cars are using and where does that leave the stick shift?
Pretty far behind if you ask me the sad truth
Is that the dual clutch transmission offers better performance results by eliminated human error and decreasing the time between shifts?
Super car companies are always chasing the fastest track times and this explains
Why companies like Ferrari have completely transitioned over to the dual clutch?
Transmission that in the fact that you can tailor your driving experience with the quick use of settings such as knobs or switches
Something that a car using a manual transmission
Cannot do the fourth and last reason is convenience of course convenience doesn't matter for most enthusiasts that ultimately want a more engaging experience
We prefer to have more control of our driving
But for everyone else why I own a manual transmission when you can own an automatic where all you have to do is press on
The gas pedal to move forward here are some examples. Why driving a stick can be inconvenient
Let's say you go to a party you get wasted
What are the chances that there will be someone there that knows how to drive manual and can drive you back or maybe you decide?
To take a long road trip with the friends you either make sure your friend can drive a manual or you end up having to
fork over some money and rent them over and
rent an automatic car this all might sound like small reasons not to get a car equipped with a manual transmission
But this all adds up to what I previously mentioned about us Americans not buying stick shift cars
It's also much easier to multitask while driving an automatic
Something you should never do people text you put on makeup all while driving those are just some things
That would be much more difficult to do while driving a stick shift car and those are some reasons why the manual transmission is dying
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