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Originally Posted by Christian
The manual transmission in North America is definitely dying out.
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I am slightly grateful that Canadian market cars still seem to offer sticks even after they are cancelled in the US. EG. the Mirage is now CVT only in the States. There are a bunch of other examples.
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I'm browsing through ~6 year old 5spd Mirages and they're selling for $13,000+ CAD. THE BASE MODEL CAR HAD A MSRP of 14k CAD!
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Coincidentally: the best deal I've seen on a beater Mirage in many months ...
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-autos-camion...age/1648519624
A rough-around-the-edges Mirage,
essentially the same car that I got in 2021 for $2k.
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Originally Posted by Ecky
This thread probably needs to be the "$3000 or less" thread now.
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Yup. The situation is improving slowly, but the good old days of "almost roadworthy" $1500 beaters may be over.