The reason no one is buying new manual cars is because all the old ones still work.

USA: Where are all the manuals?? Rest of the Earth: What??

The best anti-theft device for your car in the US is a manual transmission

"Back in my day, if you wanted to go fast, you got a manual! Both 'cause they were mechanically faster, and you could actually 'drive' the car! Not like these new-fangled dual-clutch 8-speeds you have today on cars that practically drive themselves! If you wanted to beat somebody, YOU had to match those revs, time those shifts, and bang through those gears - not a computer! I said something like that for real once. Then I realized I had actually criticisized a newer, better technology BECAUSE it was newer and better and praised the old tech for its virtue of being less convenient and more of a hassle. And I prefer the obsolete tech over the undeniably superior new tech for no reason other than it's what the cool kids 'back in my day' used and I stubbornly believe what went on in the car culture when I was growing up is the absolute only right way to do it. I don't care if high performance autos and CVTs are objectively faster - sports cars need manuals. Made me realize I'm getting old. BACK IN MY DAY WE ONLY HAD 151 POKEMON, Fast and the Furious didn't have flying cars, and we drove manuals at our boy-racer meets DARNIT! And I wore an onion on my belt; which was the style at the time.

Heard a story years ago about an old lady in the US who drove a manual.A couple of youngsters tried to steal her car while she was unloading her shopping.They gave up because they had no idea how to drive.

It would be cool if they re created older cars but like brand new, I would for sure buy that.

Manuals, like news papers, magazines, and am/fm radios are the kind of thing that will continually drop in popularity yet never entirely disappear because there will always be a small group of people who still prefer them

I switched to a manual 4 years ago and have found myself speeding less, paying attention more, and having more fun driving to work, even if traffic does suck sometimes

US: where did the Manuals go? Rest of America, Europe, Afrika and Asia: We got em

Manual Transmission = modern anti-theft device. Also anti-'can I borrow your truck this weekend?' device.

"at this rate manuals could be gone in 2 years" me watching the video 2 years later

Thank you, Subaru, for being one of the few keeping manuals alive in the US. 👍

Fast and furious logic, 1000 gears

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In 2021, there are 37 available manual transmission models.

I love my manual car. I am still learning to drive but I prefer the sense of command on the gear shifts over just convenience. Well manuals can get annoying in hellish levels of traffic, especially in India, but still, I feel like I'm actually doing some serious stuff. Automatic cars feel like video games. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them but I just love the feeling of a manual.

Chevy didn't advertise the SS. They can't expect people to buy something if NO ONE HEARS ABOUT IT. If you build it, they will come, but you gotta SPREAD THE WORD! Same goes for almost all the other automakers not advertising their fun, sporty, manual cars!

''Where Did All the Manual Transmissions Go?'' Me,a Brazilian,looking at my dad MT Nissan Frontier: *interesting*

I am a European and ive had both manual and automatic... A manual is fun to drive when you are in the mountains for example, or just in the winding roads of the countryside... But just commuting daily... I miss my automatic, its just so relaxing not to do anything except braking and giving gas. But like you said, electric or hybrid is all automatic... So eventually it will disappear from existing. Except maybe on the track.

I just like the versatility of a manual, you can creep in idle, you can rev match in various ways, you can downshift exactly when you want to, you don't have to wait for the reaction time of the engine computer to figure out what you're trying to do just from input from the gas pedal, you can coast, you don't have to hit the breaks when you're maneuvering forward and backward 🤷 you just have more control over the vehicle

In Europe most people have manual I think you were talking about only the US

Just bought a brand new 2019 Subaru impreza..... With a 5 speed

I personally love manual cars. I still have my 1997 Saturn Sc2 with a 5 speed manual. I don't think it distracts the driver either. To me, I don't even think about shifting, I just do it automatically. Just so used to it.

Even Need for Speed series shelved Manual transmission, I remember it being in Most Wanted 2005 but missing in Hot Pursuit 2010.

Me, a European: *Automatics are a very rare sight here*

Im from Germany, nearly everyone drives manual.

The first vehicle I got was an 01' Taco with a 2.7L I4 and a 5 speed manual. Was definitely a little weird to get used to at first when my dad was teaching me but I got it down after having to drive it almost 3000 miles across the country where I'm living now. About a month after I got here, I lost the Taco to an electrical fault that caused a cabin fire. I am now driving an 01' Eclipse GT with a five speed manual as well, and if I can, I want every car I get after to have a manual transmission if possible. They are so much fun to drive, and couldn't agree more when you're saying that it's harder to be distracted by other things while driving, making it safer. And also when saying that the experience in a manual is just amazing, with the feeling of truly being connected with your vehicle and to the road you're driving on.

I live in Malaysia, and we have hour long traffic jams just to commute to work, and back. And if it rains, those jams can easily take 2 hours or more. An automatic gear is a godsend in traffic jams. However, I also have a 4 wheel drive to go jungle bashing as a hobby, i.e., driving deep into the tropical jungle to camp and explore. Trust me, the simpler the 4 wheel drive with a strong manual gear is a must and a literal life-saver. And I used to have a small peppy manual gear car, which I would drive on long windy country roads. The joy and trill of barrelling down the road, hitting the perfect clutch change, and playing with the gears to extract the maximum power out of a small engine always brings a smile to my face!

Car guys: complain about the lack of manual cars. Company: *gives them manual cars* Car guys: never mind I’ll buy an older car instead.

I’m an American and love manual. I drove it for 20 years straight. When I go to Italy every summer to visit family I always rent a car. When I go to the counter to rent it, the rental agent says, “sorry, we only have manuals to rent, taxi cabs are in the other terminal” I just laugh and say, “yea, I prefer a manual”. Some agents are shocked when I drive away without stalling. I’m sad that manuals are disappearing in the US!!

I remember going to driving school in a manual car and I loved it so much that I want my first car to be a manual. I really miss shifting gears. Nobody I’m close with have manuals. Those heretics.

Whoever makes an electric car with a simulated stickshift that feels like the real thing will be the best car company for enthusiasts. But the shift has to be on point and not everyone going to look the feel cause they know it isn't the real thing, but you can feel it.

The R on the gear shifter means Race mode. Change to this when on your 5th gear. (Please don't.)

I get my license in less than a month, and I’m trying to get a 90s Miata, I’m so excited!!

Both my parents drive automatic cars, but they both have built in manual modes. My mom’s car has a paddle shifter on the steering wheel, while my dad’s has a feature where you can move the stick to the left after putting it in drive and it acts as a pseudo-manual transmission with simpler controls (move it up to upshift, move it down to downshift, and the current gear is shown by the speedometer)

2 years later, Austrians still learn to drive manual at the driving school.

"None of them had a six speed... I cried for half an hour" This is what I love about this channel!

being a european we have like 4 manual against 1 automatic

Manual gives a feeling that you are really into it.

It may be better in terms of fuel economy and safety, but: 1) Its maintenance is expensive and it's not uncommon that a repair of just the hydrokinetic clutch costs more than buying an entire new car. It's also complicated, hard to repair on your own and has a lot of moving gears that are prone to damage. 2) Clutch allows you to ,,charge" the engine (which is a nice option if your battery died) and have full control over the torque, power output and all the other aspects. In automatic it's the gear setting that tells you how fast you can go on a specific torque, in manual you can decide for yourself. It can be quite important while e.g. overpassing. 3) My grandfather, a retired driving instructor, often gives me an entire lecture on how awful the automatic transmittion is - especially for parking in winter and going uphill. I think there is something to that - even though it's programmed or engineered in other way to be more efficient than human in this matter, a driver has no control over how it will all set in these situations. 4) On automatic it's not really easy (even even possible) to drift. 5) I could use the car with manual transmission to help some of my closest ones with their driving exam. Technically in Poland you can pass an exam on automatic gearbox, but then you'd only be allowed to drive cars in this class with only this transmittion, while manual gives you permittion to drive any car vehicle in a specific class you desire.

"Where Did All the Manual Transmissions Go?" They sailed to Europe.

*Shifts into depression

lololol that sarcastic self depricating string of those particular elements thrown together in a row like that in the opening statement of this video is just perfect simply excellent i love it haha xD

I love both manual and automatic. I have a automatic with lots of options for long and annoying travel on the highway, and the manual for smaller travel, weekends and because it is a 170 horse powers small and fast car, so kind of cool to drive in small roads the weekend. And you can rev.

I'm from slovenia and here are maybe only 10% of cars automatic. I'm 35 and drove an automatic for the first time last year. Manual heaven is in europe :)

The sad thing is that manuals used to be cheaper to buy, but as they are becoming more rare in the US, the autos are often cheaper now.

So glad I got my SI. I had an automatic before and even though learning manual has been a pain in the ass, I still prefer it over auto.

I'm an old arthritic 72 year old geezer who has never owned an automatic car. I despise them. I am a veteran long haul driver and will not drive a truck with autoshift for the same reason. They dumb down the industry. Now you got me started! I have KZfaq videos on the joys of manual transmissions. North Americans are not interested. It takes practice and skill to drive them well, and most are just too lazy to learn, and I have found that some are not learnable. There I feel better! I have always factory ordered my new cars, but that may not be possible next year. I'm mad as heck. Maybe I'll swap an automatic for a 7 speed!

even the slowest car is made more fun by having a manual transmission

The only con of my manual is pushing in the clutch after leg day at the gym 😥.

The CVT idea has been used in snowmobiles for ages. The design isn't exactly the same as in cars but it's the same idea.

I learned to drive in my dad's A4 (auto), then I learned how to use a shifter with our Mazda MX-5 (or Miata) Mk 1... it's so more fun to drive a manual!

North America and Middle east: Where the manuals? Rest of the world: Pardon?

never understood the problem of a manual in heavy traffic, was never a problem to me

It's a rare thing to see an automatic car Here 😂

Thankfully here in Europe we still have manuals. In fact they are more popular than automatics, automatics are only popular in luxury brands or SUVs. But manuals are by far more popular in smaller cars.

Manual transmissions: "I don't wanna go mr stark".

We’re a culture that waits for an elevator to go to the second floor opposed to take the stairs. We pay to have someone park our car opposed to walk a couple hundred feet. We leave carts in the middle of parking lots opposed to return them. We don’t rack our weights at the gym. We litter out of convenience alone. Generalizations, sure, but look around. The manual doesn’t stand a chance in the modern US.

Manual transmissions are nice, but there's a reason automatics caught on. They're just way more convenient and comfortable for the majority of people. I currently have two cars, a 2006 Mazda 5 and a 1980 Datsun 280ZX as a project car. Both have automatic transmissions (4 speed in the Mazda and 3 in the Datsun). I daily drive the Mazda and really like how smoothly its automatic transmission shifts. I can barely feel the shift from 1st to 2nd, I can only hear the shift from 2nd to 3rd, and the final shift into 4th is completely unnoticeable unless I'm looking at what gear I'm in. It also accelerates pretty fast for a compact minivan (honestly it's closer to a hatchback than a minivan). The Datsun's 40 year old automatic though frankly sucks. The shifts are jerky, it accelerates slowly, and it can easily stall on inclines at low speed (honestly before I bought that car I didn't think automatics could stall). That's partly why I'm swapping a 5 speed manual into it, the other reasons being that manuals are just more fun to drive and I want the two extra gears. I know these two cars are 20 years apart, from different manufacturers, and of different types, but I think they still paint a fairly decent picture of why automatics caught on so quickly after being around for such a long time. Older automatics simply didn't offer many advantages compared to their manual counterparts of the time, while often taking up more space, weighing more, and coming with less gears. Until the 90's and early 2000's, there was basically no reason to get an automatic over a manual. Nowadays though, automatics offer a much smoother ride, have improved vastly in both size and weight, and have an equal amount of or more gears than manuals. We're also seeing more and more cars with semi-automatic/semi-manual options on their automatic transmissions, allowing drivers to choose specific gears without worrying about the clutch, giving drivers the best of both worlds. It wasn't laziness that killed manual transmissions, it was convenience, comfort, and advancing technology.

Most of my cars over the last 55 years have been manuals. I currently have a '16 Cadillac ATS Premium (top trim) with a six-spd manual. It's quite rare. I found three with this trim on AutoTrader four years ago in the whole country. One was in Houston, and one was on Long Island. I flew to Memphis from Detroit to get the one I have and drove it 700 miles back home. What a great car! My wife thinks I'm crazy. I'm a mechanical engineer (specialized in internal combustion engines), and I'm a big BEV advocate. This may be the last manual shift I have since, as mentioned in the video, EVs have torque curves that make transmissions unnecessary. That's okay. It's been a wonderful ride.

Recently at 22yo I bought my 2007 Mazdaspeed 3 without ever driving a manual before. I knew logically what to do, but never had done it before. First couple months were rough, but now 6 months in I will never go back to an automatic for a personal car. Freaking love it!

the manual gives you the feeling that you control the car and you are one with it...maybe some times, especially in the traffic its pain in the ass but at the end of day we love driving it

5:54 that line hits different.. Put a smile on my face And yes when i head some where am defnetly shifting.. Manualtransmition all the way!

It took me a month or two to learn, but I finally started using manual properly.

In Europe there is an opinion that automatic transmissions are for people that are really bad at driving so they buy a car where you only have to press gas and brake

To be fair, Chevy didn’t really advertise the Chevy ss. They only sold it in the first place as a deal to close the Australian Holden plant. They didn’t care about sales and would sell a lot more if they promoted it.

I once had a 1972 Chevy Impala with automatic transmission. Well, I pulled that transmission and put a 4 speed manual in it. I LOVED it.

Here in Germany, cars with an automatic transmission cost about 1 to 2 thousand Euros more. That's one of the biggest reasons why many people here buy and drive manual cars. I drive an automatic transmission since this year and i have to say that driving is so much mor relaxing, especially in rush hour with much stop and go.

motorcycle bros over here like: "hah 99% of bikes are still manual"

It's like they shifted away

I learned on my fathers terribly touchy Honda Elantra. I taught my friends how to drive a manual in the parking lot of an abandoned shopping center. I drove that car when i was growing up, took it to work, everything. I got a zippy 2014 Ford Focus that is just PERFECT for suburbs/city where I live. My parents got a house about 4 hours away, beautifully drive through the cascade mountain passes. While I don’t miss driving that Elantra most of the time in my day to day, there’s a magic to it that made me crave a manual for those times. If I ever get the income for another car, it’s gonna be stick.

I've drove both and every time i drove an automatic I really missed some control. Especially at low speed the car didn't always do what I wanted it to do. To be fair those automatics where pretty old so today they might be way better.

If I drive and automatic I always stomp the invisible clutch.

Is this some American joke that I'm too European to understand?

5:16 Lambos are actually semiautos, not not manual, not automatic. They're that weird middle ground that no one seems to know about.

I made sure my first car was a manual. It's a 2010 Mazda 3 and I love it.

I just like how manual is normal in the world but if an American drives a manual suddenly they are seen as special

When I was married my husband talked me into getting an automatic transmission car. After our divorce the first thing I did was buy a manual transmission Subaru.

So surreal to see automatics raining supreme, here in SA most people drive manual cars, I was even shocked to see a automatic merc that my aunt bought felt like the 1st time I've seen one lol.

Learned manual on a chevy Colorado. It wasn't fast but it was fun! I wish the wolfsburg golf I got was a manual, it's just an auto with paddle shifters :(

America: "Driving with a stick in heavy traffic sucks!" Philippines: "Hold my Balut"

ehh. I still miss adjusting the choke and using a hand crank to start it.

2:24 There was a great one in 2014, it was the C63 AMG 4 door 507 edition. It is a very cool car, my buddies dad has one. It has a five speed though, if I am correct. He went ocean fishing about a month ago and he was doing burnouts down B.C. roads with 250 pounds of salmon on the back. It is a very cool car.

I have an old 190E with manual. People called me weird because i did not choose the automatic... With 5 speed manual i have shorter gear ratio but still lower RPM on the highway compared to the 4 speed auto. Has only ABS and no other driving assistance or whatever. Fun to drive.

I work in the oil and gas & the mines in Australia, Auto's are just about banned and 99.99% have to be manual. Also here we have a saying, If you can't drive a manual, you can't drive.

First world problems, in ten years it will be "where is the steering wheel!"

This is the first positive thing I have ever heard about the US. Man I hate the idea of manuals.

Opel, a german company announced the Opel Manta. It is a full electric car with manual transmission. I’m already hyped.

I drive a six speed. Wouldn't have any other way.

Big ups to Honda keeping the Si exclusively manual!

I bought a brand new manual and one of the reason I got it is because my driving history shows I don't get into accidents in manual cars, I just rent my car before I got my manual car

Currently in the year 2023...Pagani coming back with the new Uthopia with a Pure V12 and a manual transmission puts a smile on my face.

If you can't start your engine, in manual transmission engine, just put it on the first gear with stepping on the clutch to make it to neutral mode and push the car to let the wheels revolve, you quickly release the clutch and the engine will start. In automatic gear you just have to wait for the mechanic or leave it on the side way.

In Europe they're probably making fun of American and how they can't drive stick.

People in America don’t understand how amazing the Holden commodore is

My first car was a 1987 Ford Escort EXP Sport that had the 5-speed manual transmission. I miss that car.

A US problem. In Europe most cars are with manual transmission.

"Where Did All the Manual Transmissions Go?!" To Europe.

While here in the UK. You can't find Automatics anywhere. Same with most of Europe too xD

Whilst it might be a bit crap domestically, imports from abroad will make up much of the manual gap in the next 20 years or so. Over here in the UK, manuals are the standard - mainly because you can't drive a manual car with an automatic license, but most of them will likely end up in the states in good time.