You can blame a lot of the scarcity of stick shift on a few factors. First, there is the EPA. They are getting stricter and stricter every year. To qualify, a vehicle has to meet their standards under pretty much all of the conditions that they define. Seems that they want the tailpipe emissions to come out cleaner than the air that went in the intake. Second, there is the issue of low sales. Apparently, not many customers are willing to buy stick shift any more.
I do have to take exception about one thing, though...
Stick shift is NOT easier or cheaper to fix anymore. There was a time when you could knock apart stick trans, and change a couple of parts and it would be goo as new. Those days are gone. I had several that came into the dealerships when I worked there with various complaints - like jumping out of gear, grinding, and hard shifting. It took a LOT of special tools to disassemble and reassemble one. Hubs pressed on to the main shaft that required special fixtures to press off (without breaking things), special fixtures for replacing stacked needle bearings, and host of special tools for servicing them in general. Then there was the cost of parts. A 1/2 synchronizer assembly was running about $600 and a 2nd gear about $400. That totaled up to a grand in parts before replacing gaskets and fluid. That was too close to the price of a remanufactured one from the manufacturer. Of all of the ones that I saw come in for repairs, every one was too expensive to fix, and was replaced with a reman.
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