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If people were only buying manuals, there wouldn't be a push to put automatics everywhere, especially sports cars. More than 50% of cars in Europe are now automatic. Only 3% of new cars are manual. The old meets the new, and the people chose the new thing. That's usually what happens. The age of the manual transmission comes to an end.
Source? And automatic is not 'new'
It is new in Europe.
https://gearsmagazine.com/magazine/automatic-trends-in-europe-automatic-transmissions-on-the-rise/#:~:text=There%20was%20significant%20growth%20in,approximately%2044%20percent%20in%202019.
This for instance.
Ok, I accept your source and facts, but it will decrease in the next 15 years because of the rise of electric cars anyways.
My dad was driving automatic Jags back in the late 1970s, but he did work in the motor trade. I am seeing more and more automatics around but I still think manual is king (at least in the UK) for the time being. If nothing else, you can save some fuel driving an auto!