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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R
^^^ 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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That's interesting, because here (and in Australia) automatics are very common, and pretty well every taxi I've seen on the road in the last several years has been an auto.
I worked out this week that the only mid-sized sedan available new in NZ (and probably Australia) with a manual is the Honda Accord Euro (Acura TSX). A lot of companies now only offer manual on small (1.5l and less) cars, and even then only for the base model.