Of the cars I purchased new all were manual trans.
There were a total of 4.
Most of the vehicles I've owned were purchased used and of them only 3 were auto's.
All were for towing, a Ford van, a Chevy Suburban, and a Ford F150.
Of the cars I purchased new all were manual trans.
There were a total of 4.
Most of the vehicles I've owned were purchased used and of them only 3 were auto's.
All were for towing, a Ford van, a Chevy Suburban, and a Ford F150.
I've only bought 2 new vehicles in my life but only 1 was manual:
2012 Jeep Wrangler Sport
I do however have a reservation for a 2022 Bronco Base Sasquatch with the manual 
I've never owned a new car, doubt I ever will as I'm way to cheap. The closest I ever get is 3 years old; the 3 I did buy were manuals, including my current Outback.
Motorcycles really don't count because automatics are extremely rare; I've bought 3 new bikes in the past 42 years.
I've owned around 18 cars split 15/3 stick vs auto.
I have had 49 stick shift cars, the newest was 5 years old when I owned it. Had one automatic briefly when I was given it in lieu of a debt. Will never buy a new one.
I enjoy driving a stick but I have to say that some modern automatics are really, really good. It used to be that they were never in the right gear and often hunted at cruising speed but they've improved significantly.
The auto in my Wife's Fusion does an excellent job. I'd like to to downshift a little quicker but it's consistent in its timing so it's easy to compensate and it always goes down a reasonable number of gears for what I'm trying to accomplish.
The one in my truck is great in tow/haul mode. I never feel like I need to use the manual override. It's not as good in its default mode so I just push the tow/haul button on mountain roads or whenever I'm towing or hauling. This is the first automatic truck I've owned in thirty years or so and I was really worried that I was going to find it annoying but, it's fine. I wouldn't want to plow snow with it but I don't do that anymore so I'm completely happy with the auto.
1995 Mustang GT
1997 Mustang Cobra
1999 Jetta VR6
2001 Beetle turbo
2013 Mustang GT
Honestly, I doubt any new manual cars are in my future though. Car payments on hobby cars are a thing of the past for me. So is using my hobby cars as a daily.
In reply to APEowner :
Agreed, modern automatics are pretty amazing.
Excluding company cars we haven't bought a lot of new cars, but the two new cars we've bought for me, rather than wife/family cars were both manuals an 01 Focus and my 08 Volvo C30.
HAving said that, If I were in the market for a new car today, I'm 99% sure I'd seek out an auto. Frisbee and Miata are the only things I'd even consider with a manual. Other cars that are offered new as a manual, things like Boxster/Cayman, Mustang, GTI, MINI, sedans and hot hatches, I'd seek out the two pedal option every time. And if they offered a DSG in a Frisbee I'd probably go for that too.
Interesting results. We've apparently bought a Hilariously large number of new cars. Our percentage is pretty good as we've only bought 4 new Autos.
I'm very tempted to make a 2022 BRZ #10. I'm just not sure anything like that will ever be available again. We may be at the end of the Manual Trans, lightweight sports car.
I know not everyone can afford new cars but it's not always the financial disaster it appears to be. For us we tend to look for <2yo, <30k miles used cars (for DDs). For the last several cars we've bought the cost to go new has been <10% compared to the used car with a few of them being only ~$500. We've also not done that bad when we traded in. My WRX and Tacoma both only cost about $2000 of depreciation to drive 50k miles.
Obviously the comparison gets worse is your buying 50k+ mile, several model year old cars.
Never bought a new car. Only financed a (used) car once and paid the loan off early.
I've bought four new vehicles in my life, three were manuals, all were Mazda's (B2000, RX-7, RX-8, CX-3)...I would have gotten a manual in the CX-3 but they aren't available in the US.
I have never owned a vehicle with an automatic transmission, that being said I have never bought a new car. Hell, I have never owned a car with a remote and have only ever owned one street car built post 1999.
I've been driving exactly 30 years now. In all that time I've only ever bought two cars brand new:
So, I'm right at 50% so far.
Zero. I have not, and will not, purchase a new car. I am too cheap to lose $10k driving it onto the street after the purchase.
Every new car either one of us ever bought. But that is only 5 total & the last one was 16 years ago.
I've only bought one new car - my '03 VW Jetta TDI wagon, but it does have a manual transmission.
Two if we count the '07 Cooper convertible I bought with my ex-.
My ex- buys new more often, but all 4 of the new cars she's bought have been manuals: '96 M3, '03 MCS, '07 Cooper and '18 Golf Alltrack wagon.
Going back into my family history, my father has bought one new car - a Datsun F10 with a 5 spd.
That said, my next new car will likely be an EV and therefore not a manual, although if my financial and storage situation were to change, I could see buying a new Mustang or Challenger or Camaro (or all 3...) with manuals.
I stopped at my future Bonneville/Delta 88/98/Buick Le Sabre mother-in-law's house in 1985 with my brand new Nissan 200SX 5-speed and she came out to see it and she freaked.
"You just bought a new car for $10,000 and you have to shift the gears?"
She probably mentioned to somebody her daughters an idiot for dating me.
In reply to nocones :
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1972 Vega GT
1975 Monza V8
out of the 22 new Chevies Ive bought.
I've only ever bought one, my 2013 FR-S. Starting sometime in the very early 2000s, I kept saying, "If some car company makes a spiritual successor to my AE86, a light little four-cylinder coupe, something Miata-like with a fixed roof, I'll put my money where my mouth is...and I did!
Out of the 11 new cars I've bought the following were manuals:
66 Midget
66 Cortina GT
74 Capri v6
85 Jetta GLI
95 Z28
97 Jetta
04 S2000
For me most recent one was a 2015 Focus ST, prior to that 2002 WRX and 1996 Honda Civic. Rest of the 6 stick shift cars I had over the years were all bought used.
None, I don't buy new vehicles.
I have owned a few manuals, 78 CJ, 85 RX7, 89 M3, 1999 Isuzu Trooper, 92 Mustang, 2008 Mustang, 88 Accord LXi, 1997 Celica.
0, which matches the number of new vehicles I have purchased in my life. I try not to get too worked up at the demise of the manual because I am part of the issue, too cheap to buy new cars.
2. A 1979 Honda Accord 4 door. A great car. And a 1986.5 Nissan truck that I still have.
A total of six:
Plenty of manuals since then, but none bought new. To be fair, since that Protege I've only bought four new cars. I learned my lesson (and also left Ford so I stopped getting A-plan).
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