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  • Report: Mercedes-Benz Gives Up On Manuals

    Report: Mercedes-Benz Gives Up On Manuals

    It truly is a dark day for luxury car buyers. First, we lost the Jaguar XE and XF Sportbrake, and now Mercedes-Benz executives have reportedly determined that the development of manual transmission in its cars is too expensive, so the company won’t make any more. The Mercedes manual is dead.


  • The Manual In The BMW 2 Series May Be Getting Axed

    The Manual In The BMW 2 Series May Be Getting Axed

    BMW is looking to save some cash as it invests in electric, hybrid and autonomous vehicles. To do so, Reuters reports, the company is going to drop manual variants of the BMW 2 Series, one of Jalopnik’s favourite cars — which seems like the opposite of getting their mojo back. But BMW’s U.S. spokespeople dispute the…