The manual gearbox is enjoying a cultural moment akin to vinyl records, but industry insiders warn that nostalgia alone cannot sustain it as automatics dominate performance and family cars alike.
The manual gearbox is enjoying a cultural moment akin to vinyl records, but industry insiders warn that nostalgia alone cannot sustain it as automatics dominate performance and family cars alike.
It ends with three pedals in a museum, and the rest of us stuck in soulless automatics, pretending that’s progress. Nostalgia doesn’t pay the bills.