Aside from the transmission, the main difference between the 'base' M4 Coupe and the Competition variants is an increase in power and torque to 503 horsepower and 479 lb-ft, thanks to an increase in boost and a higher redline of 7,200 rpm. Just because buyers of some models would buy manuals, doesn't mean the maker will go to the expense of designing, making, certifying, and importing one.Although you can pick between RWD and AWD, BMW only offers the M4 Competition with one transmission - an eight-speed automatic. Grey-market importing is becoming a big business there, too. People want those JDM kei-car vans, which also don't meet NHTSA safety standards.
I see them used (not legally) on our highways. They're probably not selling in urban areas but out here, Montana cops are very tolerant. Zero safety equipment, and emissions only to meet ORV standards. That's a somewhat-modded CJ-7 design, with one of their own diesels powering it. Have you followed the Roxor saga? Mahindra, which had licensed the Willys/Kaiser/AMC Jeep design since cided to assemble and sell it here, from CKD kits built up in Michigan. It's what the GOVERNMENT demands - and what design, what technology, will allow compliance. Blew my mind to learn that.Ĭlick to expand.Hard to say on that last, since most cars have no option for a non-automatic.īut these days.what cars are made, designed.is not what the people WANT. But we're not there and hopefully don't find ourselves in that situation.įWIW, these days, even truck tractors - ordered by major fleets - are mostly automatic. Smaller engines, relative to the cars, means every bit of mechanical efficiency will be required. The poorer Euro nations have cars made for local tastes.and with lesser emissions standards, and lesser money for luxury options.they will have manuals. That kid will learn a lot fixing that clutch, and then driving a manual. Instead, I sold it to a guy who had a kid who knew mechanics. No biggie, except that it wasn't worth the cost of pulling the engine. Didn't hurt that my last truck, a Tacoma.which had 240,000 miles on it, still sound in the body and engine.had a clutch issue, a dragging, hanging-up clutch. I've got hip and leg issues, and frankly.an automatic is a better choice.
I gave up the fight, when I found that the affordable cars that were true values, holding resale, all came with automatics.
#Affordable cars with dual clutch transmission drivers
Only cheapskates, drivers of 1960s musclecars, and the odd performance enthusiast, wanted a stick.Īnd we're aging. So, a whole generation of drivers entered the system not knowing what a clutch was. Many high-performance cars had automatics - because they were spendy, and if a hot car is so expensive that only 50something stockbrokers who made it, can afford it.then that hot car has to be set up so they can drive it like old men. Automatic transmissions were standard in many cars from the 1990s, common "options" in dealer inventory in others.so even frugal parents ordered them. The under-40s were the first generation to grow up with few stick-shifts about. The other end of it is, the resistance to it, has just about dried up. It's why car engines are now engineered to use 0W-20 syn-oil, instead of the 10W-30 of a generation ago.Īutomatic transmissions, with programmed shift points, locking torque converters.or even CVTs or dual-clutch setups.those remove one more variable, which the bureaucrats worry might lead a car to use a bit more fuel than they permit. EVERY variable must be controlled, from airflow over the car body (why most cars look like blobs, now) to internal engine friction. There's two reasons for this: The increasingly-stringent emissions and fuel-economy standards are harder and harder to meet.
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