The End of an Era? Why Manual Gearboxes Are Vanishing from Our Road
It’s a conversation that crops up more and more these days: are manual gearboxes slowly but surely disappearing from our roads? For those of us who grew up with three pedals and a gearstick, it’s a bit of a tough pill to swallow. In the UK, only around 22% of new cars now come with a manual option, compared to a whopping 86% in 2000. That’s a dramatic shift in just over two decades. And it’s not just here in Britain, the same trend is sweeping across Europe and the United States. With automatic transmissions and electric vehicles becoming the