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Report: Mercedes-Benz Gives Up On Manuals
It truly is a dark day for luxury car buyers. First, we lost the Jaguar XE and XF Sportbrake, and now Mercedes-Benz executives have reportedly determined that the development of manual transmission in its cars is too expensive, so the company won’t make any more. The Mercedes manual is dead.
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Hyundai Has A New Manual Transmission With No Clutch That Reminds Me Of The Old VW Autostick
Manual transmissions are an endangered species, like the Carolina Bottleneck Squid. In the rest of the world, they’re still thriving, but that doesn’t mean the manuals are safe. Automatics are always looming, though, in some places, that path is a bit stranger. Like in India, where Hyundai has introduced a manual transmission that you shift,…
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Report: Electric Cars Are Outselling Manual Transmissions In America
You read that right: in 2019’s third quarter, electric vehicles outsold manual transmissions, Driving.ca reports, citing numbers compiled by J.D. Power research. I knew this day would come.
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The Manual In The BMW 2 Series May Be Getting Axed
BMW is looking to save some cash as it invests in electric, hybrid and autonomous vehicles. To do so, Reuters reports, the company is going to drop manual variants of the BMW 2 Series, one of Jalopnik’s favourite cars — which seems like the opposite of getting their mojo back. But BMW’s U.S. spokespeople dispute the…