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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
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.
Norm
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Good point. I always looked at the oil crisis of the 1970's as the time when automatics really grew more traction. I think with more industrialized areas and suburbs you still see lots of people today who have never seen a manual. My 22 yr old girlfriend is from outside Philadelphia and she didn't know what it was until she met me. In the "country" or outlying areas it still seems to be more prevalent, at least that was what my experience was living in the south for four years and then northern virginia.