Answer: Manual transmission
Clues: “Car” and “Shift”
More than half of the cars sold in many countries are still stick-shift. But in the U.S., it’s LESS than 1%. In 2025, manual transmissions were down to 0.6%. They were 34.6% of new cars in 1980, 45 years ago.
The death of the stick shift is almost here – The Washington Post