>At least you're totally wrong thinking we buy manual because they're simple enough we can modify them :D We're 70M people where I come from, 95% of cars are manual, never ever heard this one.
And 400M people with manual in Europe, where an equal share (95% or so) is manual. And 99% of the people seldom if ever "modify" or hot-rod their cars.
That's more of an American thing, in the country where they have the automatics as the first choice.
That will probably change once EVs become more popular. All EVs I've heard of use either single-ratio transmissions, or automatic transmissions, even in Europe.
And 400M people with manual in Europe, where an equal share (95% or so) is manual. And 99% of the people seldom if ever "modify" or hot-rod their cars.
That's more of an American thing, in the country where they have the automatics as the first choice.