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In Europe, 80% of cars sold have manual transmissions. In the U.S., it’s only 1%.
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Faith Bottum
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Only around 18% of American drivers can handle a manual transmission, according to U.S. News and World Report. You know: the clutch pedal and the stick shift—three on the tree, four on the floor or, I don’t know, five to drive maybe. Different gears, manually engaged.
Growing up in the South Dakota countryside, I rode in vehicles that didn’t have automatic transmissions: farm equipment, old pickups, floorboard-rusted Fords from days gone by. I assumed I knew basically how to drive a car with a manual transmission.
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