> Aren't those less than 10% of all currently licensed cars? The stereotype of
> the US car market is that you can sell anything if it comes with a lot of
> engine displacement, an automatic gearbox and cupholders.


Well, with so many people buying trucks and SUVs, you are probably correct.
Ford will stop making/marketing most of their non-trucks in the US soon in
favor of various flavors of SUV.

 I was thinking of cars, which do not necessarily have the first two but
just about certainly have the last one.  :)  Most of them probably are
automatics, but there are plenty of folks who won't buy anything but manual
gearboxed cars, and they usually have 5 speeds these days.

For where I live, where there are too many stoplights, hills, and
stoplights at the top of hills, I would not consider a manual gearbox at my
age.

Mike

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