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Every Car Still For Sale With A Stickshift In America, Ranked By Number Of Gears
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Meanwhile, here I am in the UK, just spent 3 months finding a used car for an affordable price with automatic transmission. The UK has 2 stages of full licence, Full and Automatic, full you can drive both manual and automatic, Automatic....well, enough said. I'm Canadian, got my licence in Canada. When I exchanged it for a UK licence I was stuck with an Automatic licence as Canada doesn't differentiate on their licences and I couldn't prove that I had tested on a manual transmission car. I also couldn't be bothered to retake the driving test in a manual car. Tests are still in backlog from the pandemic as well, so it'd be probably a 6 month wait where I am before I could actually take the test.
All this to say, manual transmission is alive and well in the UK.
Wait so you could take your license on either a manual or automatic and the Canadian system gives you the same license? That's strange.
Yep. I did both of my tests on manual vehicles, one a VW hatch and the other an old farm truck, simply because it’s what I had available. Under the UK/EU system I guess I would have an extra endorsement, but it makes absolutely no difference in Canada.