Please, do your part. Save the Manuals.

[WRXtranceformed]

Call me old fashioned, but sports cars and fast cars, such as Porsches, should ONLY be offered in manual. Lambo and Ferrari should also offer stick again, because although the paddle shifters may be beneficial for a car of that caliber on track, 95% of people who buy them keep in in the garage and cruise down Miami Beach in it, not even bringing it to within a mile of a track. Sorry Paris Hilton, if you want one, you're gonna have to put your brain to work for once and learn how to drive a manual.

/rant.

Your forgetting ,that same 95% of people that keep them in the garage and cruise down Miami Beach in them....don't want to wipe their own ass, let alone change gears. Porsche, Ferrari, Lambo, etc are producing cars to appeal to the segment of the population that can afford them; and the vast majority of that population doesn't want to have to shift gears.

Yep, it translates down from the highest end cars to the lowest level econoboxes. Car makers are producing what the public (who buy a lot of cars) wants, and that's probably going to ultimately lead to the demise of the MT.