We’ve been hearing for about thirty years that manual transmissions are dying out. If twenty of them are just a value judgment, then today there are completely dry and absolutely incorruptible statistics on car sales and customer requirements: thanks to the advent of continuously variable transmissions and “robots” “automatic machines” truly became “the people” and even began to be installed in large numbers on cheap cars.
Image source: Lamborghini.
And not even the famous supercar manufacturers are ready for the return of manual transmissions. Therefore, Lamborghini, represented by the head of the brand Stefan Winkelmann, announced that there are no plans to return the brand’s cars to manual transmissions: all the brand’s business is already connected in some way to “automatic machines”, and today only a very small number of extremely wealthy collectors are interested in “mechanics”. Then, just for the sake of form and not for real purpose.
As recalled in the publication car buzzThe last time a car with a manual transmission rolled off the Lamborghini assembly line was in 2013 – it was the Gallardo supercar, and even then the need for “mechanics” was minimal. What can we say to modern drivers who are spoiled for comfort?
Lest the future fate of the automatic transmission be unfounded, let’s briefly recall that even in Russia, a considerable part of the passenger car market is occupied by AvtoVAZ, and the company is struggling to switch to automatic transmissions, and about 74% of new cars sold are equipped with one or another type of automatic transmission.
