“Although EPA has indicated its intent to revise the applicable standards, the final requirements have not yet been established,” Honda says. Of course, it’s also true there’s not much demand for manual-equipped vehicles anymore — but it can be credibly argued this is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy; the result of so few manual-equipped new vehicles being available. People who never learn to drive stick are probably going to stick with automatic-equipped vehicles because that’s all they know how to drive. So — for at least the past decade — most new drivers learn to drive in an automatic car and for that reason never learn to drive a stick. The potential market for stick cars grows smaller and smaller.