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Originally Posted by pjbgravely
The facts are that most of the worlds city drivers drive standards, even the taxies are standard. I remember a Top Gear episode where a driver needed an automatic and they had to find one of the Suzuki Liana they used. Out of millions sold in England there were only 40 automatics of that car in the whole country.
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^^^ In all the rides in all the 25 or so foreign countries I've visited, excluding Canada, I can only remember encountering two automatics. One was a van in Israel, and one was our rental car in Australia.
Every other ride, from taxis in Mexico, Belize, the BVIs, and England to safari vehicles in Kenya to chauffeur-driven Aston-Martins and M-Bs in Ireland, Switzerland, and Germany, was in manual transmission cars. My guides in Costa Rica, Australia, Peru, etc. drove manuals. The rental cars in England and Israel were manuals.
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