As far as the majority of European drivers are concerned, the only transmission worth considering is the manual, which accounts for four out of every five gearboxes found in new cars sold in the region. There are two key factors in this dominance: ⑴ the extra cost in purchase price of automatic transmissions; ⑵ the in-built prejudice against automatics. The typical European driver still believes that not having a shiFt stick dilutes control of the car.
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