All good reasons to pick the manual.
I wish we had stats on the durability of each transmission style. I have seen 3 different used Mirage ads that stated the manual transaxle had been replaced. But we've seen many more than 3 CVT failures.
We know of one manual in the U.S. that went to ~300k miles / ~500k km before it started having shifting problems, but the owner never bothered having it diagnosed. He just replaced the car. On the other hand, we recently saw a story of a CVT going over 400k miles / 640k km with no major problems.
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I get the impression the mirage in general was brought to the North American market as an afterthought.
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Definitely! In a way we're lucky that Mitsu dealers were asking corporate for any fresh product to sell.