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Comment by pjmlp

12 hours ago

Unless you are driving an EV, or lucky to own Audi, Volvo, BMW or Mercedes top class of vehicle, most people are on manual.

In the UK, it's about 30% automatic on the road, but automatics have outsold manuals for years and about 80% of new cars sold today are automatic.

  • Doesn't compute with 30% on the road and 80% sales, also I doubt middle to low class cars are being sold with automatics.

    Unless those 80% new cars are EVs.

    • Of course it does, half the cars on the road are over 10 years old, when manual outnumbered automatic