The current trend across the automotive world is towards smart automatics, quick shifting dual clutch boxes, with 6, 7, 8, even 9 speeds. Heaven forbid, some cars even have CVT transmissions, which we find to be mostly dreadful.
It is clear that the engineers responsible for the drivetrain can set the car up perfectly to reduce CO2 and improve fuel economy with an intelligent automatic transmission, thus the push from Audi to reduce the number of models available with a manual transmission, to the chagrin of many ardent manual transmission die-hards.
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