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Originally Posted by aerohead
Automatic transmission vehicles cost less to manufacture than manuals.
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You've said that a couple of times. Can you provide a source?
Traditional torque-converter automatic gearboxes are quite complex, what with planetary gearsets and immensely fussy shift valve bodies. Manuals have individual paired gears, and the shifting mechanisms are just sliding forks and rods.
CVTs do seem to be much simpler and probably less expensive to build.