Originally Posted by
HereAndThereSC
3) In the US a normal (non-sports) car with a stick is considered a DETRIMENT when it comes time to sell it. Most dealers will knock off 1 to $2,000 on the trade in value because of that.
True, though manual transmission is probably cheaper in the first place. When I moved here last year, I really wanted the car we bought to have manual transmission, but it would have taken a couple of months to order so in true impatient American style
we bought one that was sitting in the showroom. Would have been US$1k cheaper to wait for the manual though.
Originally Posted by
HereAndThereSC
The new semi-automatics are downright amazing though. The performance of a stick, and the shifting done by a computer. Pure awesomeness!
Personally I disagree with this. I have one of them and it's nowhere near the same.