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While manual transmissions were once common enough to be called “standard,” in recent decades, they’ve lost some of their cost advantage over automatics, noted Bill Stokes, a product planner for Subaru.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Sue Howe, the owner of Sue's Driving School in Swindon, told the BBC that automatics are "the way forward" as the car industry moves towards EVs.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

However, the delay doesn’t change the outcome: The CFP will shift the access format from six automatic qualifiers and six at-large bids to five automatics and seven at-larges.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2024

That’s despite the fact that automatics left manuals in their dust years ago.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

Having Chase running the ship was like putting a moron in a jet car on one of the superhighways—and then sabotaging the automatics.

From A Question of Courage by Finlay, Virgil