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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by antiterra on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:25AM (#32594113)
None of your cited conspiracy really shakes out with reality. Station wagons are still being made but most Americans just don’t want them. There’s a stigma in the US against station wagons (Doug Demuro style enthusiasts notwithstanding,) similar to that against minivans, and this has resulted in less US wagons for decades. In some cases they’ve been rebranded as SUVs (eg Subaru Outback.)
Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by kalleboo on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:49PM (#32596426)
Yeah the fashion went Station Wagons -> Minivans -> SUVs -> Crossovers

Each step of the way they went out of style when people went "eww that's a car for soccer moms"