The vast majority of cars in the U.S. are not sports cars, but are more mundane vehicles that are tasked to function in today's environment. Perhaps a six-speed manual makes some sense out in the more rustic areas of our country. Now imagine that you are in an urban setting, in stop-and-go traffic. That automatic seems to make more sense in that environment.

If man was meant to operate a manual transmission, he would have had three feet...