"ostaz" <ostazz@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:fd7Nb.47668$sv6.124622@attbi_s52...
Two main reasons:
1) Fewer and fewer people are willing, much less wanting, to use a manual
transmission.
2) Manual transmission vehicles have higher tested emissions than automatics
(when you shift gears you get a tiny spike in emissions: in the real world
the effect is negligible, but in the test environment it looks like a big
deal.) That means manufacturers are disincentivized, to use a Dilbertism,
from selling them, because it increases their fleet emissions.
D
