[Vwdiesel] Anyone driven the '09 TDI yet? On tiptronics and such

[Gary Bangs]

I totally agree with your statistics, however...

What percent of the population bought a slushbox only because that was 
the only option available at that time? Not many folks custom order 
cars, and just buy from dealer inventory.

But I digress.. I hate autos as well and would much rather have a nice 5 
or 6 speed manual any day.

-Gary

Tony and Lillie wrote:
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> Now, for the bad news, these transmissions are for the most part the future 
> of manuals. It won't be long, and manuals will only be offered in economy 
> cars (even those are mostly automatic now) and true sports cars. I don't 
> like it, and a lot of you don't either. But, we are the minority. Only 6.5% 
> of the new cars sold in the US last year were equipped with manual 
> transmissions.

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