- About 92 percent of new cars ordered in the UK this year were automatics.
- In the first half of the year only 7.9 percent of delivered new cars had a manual transmission.
- Of 356 new models on sale, just 72 still offer a manual gearbox.
Britain’s love affair with the manual gearbox is turning into a short goodbye. Fresh registration data out of the UK shows almost all new cars ordered now come with automatic transmissions, even as overall new-car sales just posted a double-digit gain in July 2026. Manuals are shrinking fast inside an otherwise healthy market.
That makes the country a real-time test case for where transmission choice...
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