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		kkielhofner on Aug 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The end of the manual transmission is near? I'd say it's not even close. As another commenter noted pavement princesses are probably > 90% of trucks sold today.

Retric on Aug 25, 2022 [–]

My guess is it’s closer to 25%, once you consider people who use a snow plow, haul a boat/camper/trailer etc. Now sure many of these could be replaced with smaller trucks without extended cabs etc, but the choice of pickup truck was still useful.

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