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I believe this may be the first one of the year: "They apparently couldn't start it. I had to tell him four different times to push in the clutch, because it's a standard transmission." Would-be car thieves gave up, when they couldn't drive stick shift http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/207...

Fairly basic article, and slightly outdated, pros and cons of manuals versus automatics. "While automatic and continuously variable transmissions are by far the norm among new cars, 6.5 percent of cars in the U.S. are still sold with manual transmissions. While cars with stick shifts get better...

AHTOXA, there's a blog post out there that touches on the rise of the subcompact class. Just posted it now in Manual in the News...

Manuals are having a bit of a resurgence, especially in cars that are in the fun-to-drive category. Looking at you BRZ/FRS ... However, there are plenty of drivers that want manuals in other types of cars, and in particular, subcompacts. Once regulated to a short option list, the US subcompact class...

Lots of content re-use from other articles, but still good to see: "Based on the data published by USA Today in the middle of 2012, manual transmission cars are coming back as a trend. " "Here are the the figures with the corresponding years: 2012 – 6.5% (Based on first quarter data o...

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Ford's Plan To Make A Stick Shift-Only Car Is Not As Stupid As It Sounds

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-ford ... z2GUTyKHD8

Too many good snippets to quote, but some good % numbers as well as reasons why the Fiesta 1.0L will be offered in manual-only.

Given access to this forum and driving tips with just read access to others, good point about lots of legit first posts are about a particular problem. Always a balancing act, and just getting way too many human spam posts with a revolving custom question, basic CAPTCHA and email confirming. See how...

Tom and Ray answers questions about all of the [former] advantages of manual transmissions: "Dear Tom and Ray: When I first learned to drive, a million years ago, my father (who knew nothing about cars) advised me to always drive a manual transmission because they handle better, are easier to r...

Trying something new for new members... They only have posting access to this forum for a while. Hopefully it will be a good balance between legitimate new members versus the spam hordes. Please report any spam quickly... Thanks!

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1077220_chevy-wants-to-teach-you-the-joy-of-rowing-your-own-gears "Today, finding someone who’s ready, willing and able to teach you the joys of manual gearbox driving may not be so easy. After all, most cars don’t even offer manual transmissions anymore, and ...

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/down-shifting-manual-transmissions-running-out-of-road/article_7ce2518c-c367-5560-8fa8-6e2ae0d8f1d8.html "The reasons are obvious: manual transmission is often tricky to learn and requires extra concentration and finesse, making multi-tasking all but impo...

"NEW DELHI: The third pedal is slowly disappearing from the Indian market." "From just 2% till five years ago, automatics now form around 12-14% of the new cars sales with a bulk coming from the top-end sedan and SUVs sold that are sold with automatic options only." http://econom...

Back in the saddle here so to speak. Started last year with some metric centuries, aiming for a couple of full centuries this year, and bring my average up from the 15mph average zone to a more reasonable 16-18mph average.