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Are Manual Transmissions Still More Reliable Than Automatics?

SlashGear By staff@slashgear.com (Madeline Cuccio) Oct 15, 2026 · 12:45 PM 2 views 0 comments

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At one point, manual transmissions were a lot more reliable than automatics, due to automatics still being in their infancy. Is that still the case?

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