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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is obvious, but popular doesn't mean good. I doubt anyone here would suggest that outside of a few models (i.e., the new Z car) it makes business sense to sell a manual. But that doesn't mean the car wouldn't be better, from a driving perspective, if it had one. So this argument...
... is like judging the quality of a movie by how much it makes at the box office. I don't care if Transformers 2 pulled in a billion dollars, it's a piece of #### that I want no part of. Popular opinion is a poor basis for conclusions about what's good and what isn't, because, well, most people are kind of dumb. Or in this case, they mostly have different priorities when buying a vehicle.
I totally disagree. You haven't supported this conclusion at all. All you've done is give sales figures to show that the broader public don't actually want to buy manual versions of most cars, not that they don't "integrate well". There are plenty of cars where a manual doesn't make much sense. There are others where it does, and where it significantly improves the driving experience. There are still others where you could go either way, and see benefits and drawbacks from either transmission depending on your personal preferences and what you're buying the car to do.
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What point he did make, is the Pareto rule, is narrowing. Only 10%, not 20, really know.
