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Old 04-10-2017, 12:13 PM   #135
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Originally Posted by psheldon97 View Post
I don't think broad stroking that description is accurate because the cultural shift from manual to automatic started in the 70's and 80's. It has nothing to do with millenials and laziness - it was a continuation of a trend already in place.
Actually, the trend started a good bit before the 70's with my parents' generation (closer to your great-grandparents' generation).

In some respects, your generation is as much a victim of the previous three generations' trend to automatics as it is to anything within itself. On average with each successive generation, there's been less exposure to MT driving. Makes MT driving kind of an "out of sight, out of mind" thing for lots of people, must be difficult because hardly anybody they know drives stick, etc.


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