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Headline: The Manual Transmission Is Nearing Extinction

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Manual transmissions are rapidly disappearing from the global car market. Once dominant in Europe, stick shifts have fallen from 91 percent of new car registrations in 2001 to just 29 percent last year across Germany, the UK, France, Italy, and Spain

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