American Dream

As a lifelong driver of cars (and over the past 25 years, mostly pickup trucks and SUVs) with clutches and manual transmissions, I found this article, about someone learning to drive a vehicle with a manual transmission in New York City traffic, to be rather amusing. I have to drive quite a lot in congested traffic here in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C., so it's no big deal with all my years and miles of manual transmission driving.

I think it's still correct to say that everything else being equal, a vehicle with a manual transmission will tend to consume less fuel than a vehicle with an automatic gearbox.