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Originally Posted by equality72521 View Post
You just answered the question. As a business why would they cater to the minority? If your goal is to sell as many cars as possible and only 10% want a manual transmission then the obvious thing to do is make auto transmissions.
If porsche wants to put automatic gearboxes in their cars as an option that's fine, but they had better never get rid of manual gearboxes.

I would equate a porsche with a tip/auto trans to your average corvette owner who wants a shiny "sports car" to impress his friends at the country club, but wouldn't know how to drive it if his life depended on it. I guess it's just a personal issue, but I have a certain level of contempt for people that ruin an otherwise perfectly acceptable car by choosing to put an automatic transmission in it.
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