Do automakers want the manual trans to die?

[Anonymous 3]

Keymaster wrote:

less than 4% of drivers know how to drive manual transmission

WTF? I don’t have a driver licennse yet but my fatger showed me that many years ago on the car, and it wasn’t that complicated. And my bike has manual gears too, LOL.

[Anonymous 1]

Do you know how to do a brake torque in a stick shift? That was the first thing my dad showed me when starting to drive.

I got kicked out of high school for a few days for doing burnouts in the parking lot.

[TolzParticipant 165]

I learned to drive a manual through trial and error and with the help of a few friends a few years ago when I decided to upgrade to a sports car. Can’t go back after doing that. Automatics are boring to drive.

[AutoliteParticipant]

I learned to drive with a ‘three-on-the-tree’. Still have one car with it. I wonder how many under 40 year olds even know what that is…

[Anonymous 1]

Autolite wrote:

Making it worse, The Turdeau Liberals in Canada, in 2018, will be banning the importation of products made with asbestos. It means that clutches and brakes for the older vehicles will have to be custom made in specialty shops using non-asbestos substitute materials…

Not as bad as you think — we haven’t had asbestos in brake pads (or any other car parts) in Oz since 2003.

You’ll only have issues if you have some really left-field vehicle.

[OgreParticipant 5863]

It was already hard to find manuals in new cars 7 years ago. There were four cars within 100 miles of me. That’s all brands, all dealers.

The manufacturers blame the low take rate for not supplying more. Very few people want them. I’ve had at least one manual in the stable for all but three years of my driving life.

I failed to realize in my youth that I was the prize. I was going to work. I was going to earn. Little did I realize that due to feminism, that no longer meant I had to share. Road soon, Desert after.

[StargazerParticipant 12505]

I learned how to drive in a Volkswagen Thing and insisted on manual for every car I purchased. Every car I’ve ever owned, except for my last one, was manual transmission.

I went to the Jeep dealership and they told me that if I wanted a manual transmission, I’d have to order it from the factory and put a $5000 deposit down because “Nobody wants them and if it arrives and you don’t buy it, we won’t be able to sell it.”

[AttonParticipant]

The manual never took hold in the US.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[AutoliteParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Not as bad as you think — we haven’t had asbestos in brake pads (or any other car parts) in Oz since 2003.

You’ll only have issues if you have some really left-field vehicle.

I’m concerned about vehicles 35 years old and older. I emailed ‘Raybestos’ in the United States and asked them if they would make non-asbestos brake linings for older vehicles but they didn’t reply.

I recently did a couple of clutch changes on a pair of really old tractors. The clutches were made with asbestos and came from the United States. I’m worried that these types of clutches will soon no longer be available. I can’t see the American companies making non-asbestos clutches and brakes for older vehicles in Canada. The market would just be too small for it to be viable…

[Jim01Participant 6678]

Keymaster wrote:

It’s true! My car is a stick, and I heard (from a car professional ) less than 4% of drivers know how to drive manual transmission. Most people don’t even understand the concept of “gears” or “gearing down”. It really surprised me too.

( At least I don’t need to worry about it being stolen. )

You DRIVE a stick.
You RIDE an automatic.

Big difference.

Do automakers want the manual trans to die?

Cars are less like “cars” now and more like an iPad with wheels. A friend just bought a new Jeep SUV this thing will help you park, and apply the brakes if IT thinks you’re too close. It *beeps* and alerts him every few seconds. Please just kill me now.

They want cars to be more like WOMEN want cars to be. As lazy as possible. And self-driving? One day you get in, all four doors lock and it takes you straight to the police station to book you for misgendering a dog.

Wait for it.

Great post and you are right with that last bit…

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