If I was driving 8-10 hours per day I’d want an auto… I know manuals used to be cheaper and are still a little cheaper, but I’d have thought the reduced effort would be appealing.
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The only automatic transmission design that can be considered at least kinda reliable is the torque converter one.
Almost no european cars use it (mostly just luxury cars), because it increases CO2 emissions, which leads to bigger emission fines, which are like 100 usd per gram of CO2, per car.
So automatics sold here are mostly dual clutch/DSGs (unreliable, complicated, costly repair), CVT (noisy, annoying, rarely lives past 150tkm) or robotized manuals (quite frankly slow crap).
Combine that with lower purchasing power here, and many people (myself included) will rather use stick than pay 2-4000 usd repairs 🙂
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