I've spent the past year or so in Asia and South America. I've ridden in dozens (hundreds?) of taxis and ubers, and all but one (uber driver with an auto Nissan in Lima, Peru) have had manual transmissions.
We think of the MT car as a dying breed, but the world is full of stick shifts!
You can't even count the number of MT Toyotas clogging the roads in Bangkok or Bogota. It is endless.
MT may be dead in the US, but it is alive and well in the rest of the world.
With so few MTs left at home, I was surprised to see how they still dominate everywhere else (new cars, not just old junkers).
Lots of simple, inexpensive, durable vehicles like Hi-Lux trucks that we can't buy or import to the US too.
Just interesting to see how different the product mix is, even in this age of "global platforms"...
We think of the MT car as a dying breed, but the world is full of stick shifts!
You can't even count the number of MT Toyotas clogging the roads in Bangkok or Bogota. It is endless.
MT may be dead in the US, but it is alive and well in the rest of the world.
With so few MTs left at home, I was surprised to see how they still dominate everywhere else (new cars, not just old junkers).
Lots of simple, inexpensive, durable vehicles like Hi-Lux trucks that we can't buy or import to the US too.
Just interesting to see how different the product mix is, even in this age of "global platforms"...