11/16/2019

Why More Americans Drive Automatics Than Europeans

Source: Fleet Management Weekly

Fewer and fewer people are driving cars with stick shifts in the United States.  According to CarMax, 96 percent of Americans drive automatics. Contrast that with Europe, where almost everyone learns to drive a stick shift.

Americans are much more likely to be multitasking when they’re driving. That is not the case with the rest of the world.

Europeans are also more likely to own higher-end cars. You would never see a manual Porsche Cayenne in the United States. But you will in Europe. They also prefer manual transmissions because they use less fuel.

Read the article at MSN.