It looks like you didn’t seriously engage with the issue you are complaining about. Quick Googling gives you:
Less expensive to purchase – If you’re car shopping on a budget, then there’s really no contest between the manual and the automatic. On average, a manual transmission will cost you about a thousand dollars less than an automatic of the same model.
It looks like you didn’t seriously engage with the issue you are complaining about. Quick Googling gives you:
Fair enough. I’d assumed the prize was ~the same (experience curves, anyone)?