Ford Manual Transmissions Declining in Popularity in Europe
Though the all-new 2021 Ford Bronco is now one of the few vehicles on the road with a standard seven-speed stick shift, the popularity of the stick shift is on the decline in America as automatics are increasingly the norm. The story is similar in Europe, but it may come as a surprise how many Ford vehicles are sold with manual transmissions.
According to Ford, the number of passenger and commercial vehicles sold with an automatic transmission has more than tripled since 2017. This isn’t shocking, perhaps, but it might come as something of a surprise that manual transmissions are still overwhelmingly the preference. In 2019, 77.2 percent of all Ford vehicles sold in Europe had a manual transmission.
