Driving a stick : Is the end near?

The manual transmission may be going the way of the Dodo bird, but drivers, like Tibor Kiss, remain diehard fans of the stick shift.

“You interact with the vehicle more; it performs the way you want it to perform, ” said Tibor, who recently purchased a 2013 Fiat 500 with a manual transmission. “It’s more fun to drive.”

The stick shift has steadily lost ground to automatic transmissions and now makes up about four per cent of new vehicles sales in the U.S. — down from eight per cent in 2003, said Jeremy Acevedo, auto analyst at Edmunds.com. “To put it gently, we think of them as endangered. We keep seeing less of them.”

Earlier this month, Young Drivers of Canada in the Greater Toronto Area announced that effective February 2014,  it would no longer be offering manual driving instruction.

The move doesn’t surprise Mary Barraco, centre director at Young Drivers of Canada in Windsor.

Source: windsorstar

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