The dumbing down of the automobile continues! And it has efficiency implications, too.
Not only are some full size pick-up trucks now getting
worse MPG than their predecessors (reversing a long trend), the EPA-beating ability of choosing your own gear has disappeared for the 2019 model year.
The last manual transmission truck you could get is the 2018 Ram 2500.
Even with the eleventy-billion-speed automatics now commonly available, remember that the
EPA ratings of manual transmission vehicles are handicapped by the test methodology. It's always easier to beat the EPA with a manual than with an automatic, simply by using the most basic eco-driving technique of up-shifting to the highest usable gear after accelerating.
I've never driven a full-size pickup with a stick, though there's a nice 70's F150 in a nearby town that has a 3-on-the-tree. I can dream.
Source: https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-las...ick-1831744609