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Come to think of it I'm not sure I really know anybody who can't drive a stick.  Even some of my friends with teenage or college age kids have made sure they have the skill.  Heck, some of them have even bought their kids track time with an instructor.

You clearly run with a different crowd than I do, Lane. My primary supply house went without a delivery driver for almost a year because they couldn't find anybody who could drive their stake-bed delivery truck (equipped with a stick).

According to one survey, 18% of US drivers (of all ages) can drive a car with a manual transmission. KBB says that number is closer to 66%, but only 13% of new car models even offer a manual transmission - and of that number, the take rate for manuals is vanishingly small.

OTOH, no new car can be sold in the USA without ABS and traction control. Very nearly every new car comes with an electric steering rack.

I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

Last edited by Stan Galat
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