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Wonderboy:
I understand what you are saying, but when my wife does not know how to drive a stick, and won't try, and there is a Prius with a CVT that gets great gas milage (oh, and I forgot to say has 8 airbags, that was a HUGE selling point), then why not make everyone's lives easier? It may have been a different story if the price difference was great, but it wasn't.
What you are talking about goes beyond manual transmissions, it's an "A-mer-i-ka" thing. There's a reason why most of the world sees the US as wasteful, stubborn, and needing to change. I know it can't be an attack on me or my wife, since we do composting, some gardening, and trying to reduce fuel consumption in and around the house as much as possible... no harm.
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