Citing data from Edmunds, the publication says only 41 of 327 new vehicles offer a manual transmission in the United States. That's a little over 12% of all new models. While that number actually The latest figures show only about five percent of cars are sold with a stick shift. The numbers peaked at about 25 and 30 percent of production in 1987 for cars and 1990 for trucks, according to EPA statistics. Mazda sells three times the percentage of manual transmissions in highly equipped Mazda3s Grand Tourings as it does in entry-level A ccording to a study by Edmunds, more than 80% of cars sold in Europe have a manual transmission, as compared to just 3% in the U.S. Read on to find out what's behind this staggering difference between manual cars & automatic cars. 1. Superior Fuel Economy: According to Edmunds.com, the online automotive research company in Santa Monica, Calif., manual or stick shift transmissions comprised roughly seven percent of new car sales in the first quarter of 2012. By August 2013, the new cars sold in the U.S. with manual transmissions had dropped to 3.9 percent. Manual transmissions account for just 2 percent of all vehicles sold in 2018, according to data from Edmunds.com. In 2006, 47 percent of new models in the U.S. were offered with automatics and Today's percentage has down-shifted to 2.4%. The long-term shift away from stick shift cars is even more dramatic. Today's stick shift sales have dropped by 89.5% since 1995, when 26.8% of our vehicles sold were manual. The chart below shows the percentage of manual transmission cars sold annually at our stores since 1995. The advent of electric cars in the country is hastening a move away from manual transmission vehicles. 20% of cars sold worldwide will be EVs, revving to 50% by 2030 and possibly hitting 100% Mathilde Carlier. In 2021, the auto industry in the United States sold approximately 14.9 million light vehicle units. This figure includes retail sales of about 3.3 million autos and just under 1. Car buyers spend 59% of their time online researching. (Autotrader) 2. When researching online, 46% of car shoppers use multiple devices. (Autotrader) 3. Most car buyers are undecided at the start of the shopping process. When they first begin to shop, 6 out of 10 them are open to considering multiple vehicle options. We did some research of our own, and we noticed that total registrations did go up in that time from 2,044,609 in 2012 to 2,692,786 in 2017. Even though we could blame some of the those automatic Toyota. The Corolla lineup has the lowest take rate at less than 1%. With around 280,000 Corollas sold in the United States in 2018, this means less than 2,800 were delivered with a manual According to data obtained by CNBC and Edmunds, only 41 of the 327 new car models available to buy in the United States today are offered with a manual transmission—that's just 12.5 percent. Toyota. The Corolla lineup has the lowest take rate at less than 1%. With around 280,000 Corollas sold in the United States in 2018, this means less than 2,800 were delivered with a manual According to data obtained by CNBC and Edmunds, only 41 of the 327 new car models available to buy in the United States today are offered with a manual transmission—that's just 12.5 percent.