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Originally Posted by 400 4spd.
I don't know if marketing or supply played a part, but I can see the validity in that. I've lived in a city of a few hundred thousand, and also a rural country setting for 30 years.
Driving for miles with no traffic lights vs. a light every 75 yards makes a difference.
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Some taxi companies as well as police/highway patrol departments stayed with manual transmissions for quite a while after automatics had been accepted as reliable by the majority of buyers. Can you imagine having to drive a cab with a three speed manual transmission in a big city?
