I’ve had my driver’s permit since 1998 and bought my first automatic car (toyota hybrid) this year, after 24 years of driving. The tyde is definitely turning even in Europe’s toughest manual bastions like my Slovenia. More than a third of new cars sold are auto, which is a lot for us. The more West you go, the bigger…

It won’t be Europe saving manuals. The last bastion will soon be India. Europe is increasingly becoming an automatic country, in some parts up to 50%, in many even more (Russia), so... For example, in the 90s, most of BMW 5-series were manual, nowadays they’re almost exclusively automatic. In general it appears that…