With the warm days of spring come stirrings among cruisers, anxious to again hear the growl of the engine and feel the union between driver and machine shifting gears on the open road.
But like the powerful V-8, the stick shift — or manual transmission, common to beloved muscle cars and older vehicles — is fading into the annals of automotive history.
Sales of vehicles with manual transmissions have hovered around 4 percent the past two years, down from a decade high of 8.5 percent in 2002.
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