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It’s been difficult to find manual transmisssions for a couple of decades here in the US. That ship has sailed.
While most of my life I vowed my kids would learn manual, I gave up on that idea because
My kids started driving in a world of automatics and will soon be in a world with no transmissions
Now THAT'S a statement made by the utterly deranged
I think he is confusing CVT with the toyota eCVT which is quite different and is actually reliable
The Prius system is a modern marvel and deserves a better name than eCVT.
Belt type CVTs are trash. I don't care that your Subaru has 57,000 trouble free miles, it's going to die.
If they aren't made by Nissan, they are.
CVTs are good for tractors that need a wide range of torque ratios but still stay automated.
I've had a Subaru CVT for 10+ years with over 200k miles no issues. Anecdotal yes, but I've grown fond of the CVT feel, it's smooth, I like it.
I know there's no reason for them to, but a small part of me wishes there was. Something so satisfying about being good at managing gears
There are simulated transmissions for the weirdos.
I'm not that into the idea, and the simulation kind of ruins what I'm after anyway. I want to feel it when I get a good/bad shift and I want it to matter.
Sure, you can simulate the engine rumbling and the gears grinding. You can even rock the boat a bit with some hydraulics. When I shift "wrong" you can make me feel it for sure. But when I shift right, it's not just smooth so that you can't feel it. It's smooth so that you can feel it ya know? (Okay maybe it wasn't that smooth and what you're really feeling is a slight clutch dump but wasn't it fun)
I feel this post in my old bones.
So true. I’ve never been more tempted to keep a classic car, even if it’s just an old shit box with manual transmission.
When I learned how to drive, manual transmissions were higher performance and better fuel efficiency: side by side comparisons of the exact same model of car would show better 0-60 and quarter mile times, while having slightly better EPA fuel efficiency ratings, for the manual transmission.
At some point, though, the sheer number of gears in an automatic transmission surpassed those in the typical manual gearbox, and the average automatic today has 6 gears, up to 9 in some Mercedes and 10 in certain Ford and GM models. So they could start selecting gear ratios for better fuel efficiency, without "wasting" a valuable gear slot. There was a generation of Corvettes that was notorious for having a 6th gear that was worthless for actual performance but helped the car sneak by with a better highway fuel mileage rating.
And the automatics became much faster at shifting gears, with even the ultra high performance supercars shifting to paddle shifters where the driver could still control the gear, but with the shifting mechanism automated. Ferrari's paddle shifter models started outperforming the traditional stick shift models in the early 2000's, if I remember correctly. As those gear shifting technologies migrated over to regular automatics, the performance gap shrunk and then ended up going the other way.
At this point there's not enough reason for a true manual stickshift transmission. It's no longer faster or more economic, so it's just a pure fun. Which is fine, but does make it hard to actually design one for any given model of car.
In the US it’s not really even cheaper - as in maybe you could save a couple hundred on a few models but most won’t offer a choice and it’s nothing in proportion to the cost of the car and the chances of finding one are so small it’s not even worth trying for most cars. There may be a few - are jeeps still available?
My favorite car was a Miata with a stick (even though I’m too tall to fit) - maybe I need to track down an older one before they’re gone forever
Had a manual 2016 Mazda 3. Took a bit to find it with all the options I wanted but it was available at the time.
Isn't the civic si series all manual?
I bought a civic in 2006 and it took 6 weeks to get one. A manual would have taken much longer