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      01-15-2021, 02:52 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by E92inPHX View Post
I don’t know much about the Euro and Asian market but I’d assume they make variants of them in manual over there. Why can’t we just order it? It doesn’t change the emissions standards they’d have to meet in the states.
From what I understand, particularly in the US, a car with a manual transmission vs. an automatic transmission has to be NHTSA certified separately. The additional cost involved for doing this could be enough of a reason to not manufacture/release the manual variant here.
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