Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that Ferrari & Lamborghini no longer make cars with a manual transmissionwww.motortrend.comexternal-linkmessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down112
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minus-squarepropofool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoPorsche continues to sell manuals, but alas did do away with it on the upcoming Carrera 992.2 and gts. They have a 40% overall manual sales per this: https://www.motor1.com/news/705017/manual-transmission-sales-2023/ Bmw and others do have high individual model manual take rates (bmw m2/ct5 blackwing e.g. at 60/50% respectively.) But they’ll always be the less performance option, though more “engagement”.
minus-squareUsernameblankface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoThere is definitely a market for cars that take a loss in performance to give a boost in engagement.
Porsche continues to sell manuals, but alas did do away with it on the upcoming Carrera 992.2 and gts. They have a 40% overall manual sales per this: https://www.motor1.com/news/705017/manual-transmission-sales-2023/
Bmw and others do have high individual model manual take rates (bmw m2/ct5 blackwing e.g. at 60/50% respectively.)
But they’ll always be the less performance option, though more “engagement”.
There is definitely a market for cars that take a loss in performance to give a boost in engagement.