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This sentence appears in the title page of this forum: Manual transmissions are usually more fun to drive, cheaper to buy and maintain, and offer improved performance and fuel economy versus automatic transmissions . Has anyone noticed that fuel economy is not really an advantage anymore? Looking th...

Take this with a grain of salt, but I test drove a manual S5 (not the A5) recently and found the clutch to be difficult. However, I am an absolute beginner when it comes to driving standard shift, which is why I wouldn't put stock in what I say here. OTOH, I did note that the Audi salesman (who sai...

well because manual transmissions are (or were) cheaper and easier to manufacture alot of base model vehicles only come with a row your own transmission. so they probably think the only reason your gonna get a manual transmission in your vehicle is because you want a new vehicle but you want to spe...

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Doubt anyone here owns an A5 though.

Really? Why is that? It seems plenty of the smaller Audis are manual transmissions.

Nice list. I noticed that the TSX is available with a manual trans only on the 4-cylinder model. The V6 is automatic trans only. I wish more manufacturers would make manual transmissions available on the bigger/more powerful engines, but it seems like the trend has been going the other way for years...

I'm glad to have found this forum. I've been driving manual transmission cars since I was 18 years old. So that's more than 20 years now. I've owned 11 cars in my life so far, and the first 10 of them were all manual transmission. I currently drive a 4Runner and it's an automatic (they didn't offer ...