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Or maybe DON’T get a manual while you can? Because fossil fuel powered cars are destroying the planetary systems we depend upon for life?

@arstechnica Ugh, I thought they were getting rid of those capacitive touch fake buttons after how much people hated them on the id4? Guess I’m hanging onto my 2017 GTI for a while longer.

@mpirnat @arstechnica
I sat in a Golf R a couple of weeks ago, ready to buy… except for that dash. No thanks. Also keeping my GTI.

@arstechnica Probably bigger news is the 2024 base Jetta looks like the last economy sedan with a manual in the US

@arstechnica I have never owned, as my personal car, a car with an automatic transmission.

(I drive a Mazda Miata.)

Long live the clutch pedal!!!

@arstechnica Love my 2008 Stick. Every time I think about replacing it I remember that all the latest cars are stuffed with surveillance tech. In theory you can disable it but that looks like a huge PITA.

@lemgandi @arstechnica also I have zero doubt it would void your warranty.

@callisto @arstechnica Ha. I have voided warranties before.