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I don't want my kids to be limited in what vehicle they can purchase. A manual transmission is also far, far more reliable and difficult to burn up in the snow, mud, pulling a trailer etc... And... if you do manage to ruin the friction disc... very cheap to replace compared to an automatic transmission. I believe the U.S. market is dominated by automatics because we have more expendable income to fix them... much larger profits in maintenance and replacement. Perhaps people here are lazy as well, but the higher profits the industry makes is the main reason in my opinion.
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