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Originally Posted by jmg
I love manuals and I grew up on them but the manual is dead. Might as well teach them how to rewind a VCR, read pager codes, or use a rotary phone. It's a waste of time and resources. Instead of spending hours teaching them manual, teach them how to be good drivers. Teach them that the fast lane is for passing only, how to be respectful of other drivers, etc. I'd rather they know those things then how to downshift rev match heel toe etc.
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Learning how to drive a manual and learning how to be a good driver are not mutually exclusive.
I don't think CR is reviewing VCRs or pagers, or rotary phones, but on the cover of the August 2019 Car and Driver:
Five $25,000 Hatchbacks that are saving the manuals
(The five are Honda Civic Sport, Mazda 3, Hyundai Elantra GT N-Line, Volkswagen Golf SE, Toyota Corolla XSE).
So calling it dead is a just little hyperbolic.