The manual transmission is dying. Pick your reason: improved technology in automatic gearboxes, (lazy) driver preferences, cost-cutting or the onset of electric and (potentially) self-driving cars. But the result is the same: the manual transmission has never been less relevant than it is today. Things look so bleak that an uptick to 1.7% of all car purchases being manual gearbox models in 2023 was viewed as a sign of optimism. There were some important wins for manuals in
