Save Manuel! I mean the manual! (Intersting read)

[the insider]

http://jalopnik.com/manual-transmissions-are-hideously-expensive-because-of-1294864532

 

[webby]

had to read way too far to see this answer...

Lots of people seem to be reading this article and interpreting it as "it's too expensive to engineer manuals" where the sentiment is "they're too expensive to justify in addition to the automatic they're already going to do because they know they'll sell it."

 

[the insider]

Yup.